Brocade Mobility 5181 Access Point Product Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.4.0.0) User Manual
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Basic device configuration
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a. Select the Keep Alive check box to enable occasional communications over the WAN port
even when client communications to the WAN are idle. Some ISPs terminate inactive
connections, while others do not. In either case, enabling Keep-Alive maintains the WAN
connection, even when there is no traffic. If the ISP drops the connection after the idle
time, the Mobility 5181 Access Point automatically reestablishes the connection to the ISP.
b. Specify the Username entered when connecting to the ISP. When the Internet session
begins, the ISP authenticates the username.
c. Specify the Password entered when connecting to the ISP. When the Internet session
starts, the ISP authenticates the password.
For additional Mobility 5181 Access Point WAN port configuration options, see
7. Click the LAN tab to set a minimum set of parameters to use the Mobility 5181 Access Point
LAN interface.
a. Select the Enable LAN Interface check box to forward data traffic over the Mobility 5181
Access Point’s LAN connection. The LAN connection is enabled by default.
b. Use the This Interface drop-down menu to specify how network address information is
defined over the Mobility 5181 Access Point’s LAN connection. Select DHCP Client if the
larger corporate network uses DHCP. DHCP is a protocol that includes mechanisms for IP
address allocation and delivery of host-specific configuration parameters from a DHCP
server to a host. Some of these parameters are IP address, network mask, and gateway.
Select DHCP Server to use the Mobility 5181 Access Point as a DHCP server over the LAN
connection. Select the Bootp client option to enable a diskless system to discover its own
IP address.
NOTE
Brocade recommends that the WAN and LAN ports should not both be configured as DHCP
clients.
c. If using the static or DHCP Server option, enter the network-assigned IP Address of the
Mobility 5181 Access Point.
NOTE
DNS names are not supported as a valid IP address for the Mobility 5181 Access Point.
The user is required to enter a numerical IP address.
d. The Subnet Mask defines the size of the subnet. The first two sets of numbers specify the
network domain, the next set specifies the subset of hosts within a larger network. These
values help divide a network into subnetworks and simplify routing and data transmission.
e. If using the static or DHCP Server option, enter a Default Gateway to define the numerical
IP address of a router the Mobility 5181 Access Point uses on the Ethernet as its default
gateway.
f.
If using the static or DHCP Server option, enter the Primary DNS Server numerical IP
address.
g. If using the DHCP Server option, use the Address Assignment Range parameter to specify
a range of IP address reserved for mapping clients to IP addresses. If a manually (static)
mapped IP address is within the IP address range specified, that IP address could still be
assigned to another client. To avoid this, ensure all statically mapped IP addresses are
outside of the IP address range assigned to the DHCP server.