Nokia MW1122 - Manual (Page 44)

Managing MW1122
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7. Ensure that the channel has been changed by typing
show wlan
stat command.
You have now changed the WLAN channel of your Nokia MW1122
and you can use the wireless LAN normally. You may need to restart
your wireless LAN clients if they do not support automatic channel
scanning. Consult the user manuals of each WLAN client for
instructions on changing their WLAN channels.
Controlling the access to your network
You can control the access to your MW1122 with an access list. By
default, this feature is off in MW1122. This means that all WLAN
clients are allowed to have access to your Nokia MW1122. Therefore it
is important that you identify your WLAN clients, add them on the
access list and activate the admission control function which prohibits
other WLAN clinets from entering your network. This is a major
security issue protecting your wireless network from outsiders. To add
clients to the access list:
1. Consult your computer’s and WLAN clients’ manuals on how to
find out your WLAN clients’ MAC addresses. For clients running
Windows 95 and 98 operating systems, you can find out the MAC
addresses by running
winipcfg.exe
and selecting WLAN card
from the menu. The MAC address is shown in the Adapter
address field.
2. Open a telnet or CLI session to MW1122 as described earlier in
this chapter.
3. Start the configuration mode by typing configure ENTER
.
4. Go to wlan configuration level by typing
wlan ENTER
.
5. Add an entry on the access list by giving the following command:
sta–address <entry-name> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx , where
entry–name identifies the access list entry (for example, a PC host
name) and xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the MAC address of the allowed
wireless client.
6. Repeat the sta-address command if you want to add more
clients on the access list.
7. If you want to remove WLAN clients from the access list, just type
no sta-address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx , where
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the MAC address of the wireless station you
want to remove from the list.