Proxim ORiNOCO AP-700 - Manual (Page 37)

Performing Advanced Configuration AP-700 User Guide
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You can configure and view the following parameters within the System Configuration screen:
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Name: The name assigned to the AP. Refer to the Dynamic DNS Support and Access Point System Naming Convention sections for
rules on naming the AP.
• Location: The location where the AP is installed.
• Contact Name: The name of the person responsible for the AP.
• Contact Email: The email address of the person responsible for the AP.
• Contact Phone: The telephone number of the person responsible for the AP.
• Object ID: This is a read-only field that displays the Access Point’s system object identification number; this information is useful if you
are managing the AP using SNMP.
• Ethernet MAC Address: This is a read-only field that displays the unique MAC (Media Access Control) address for the Access Point’s
Ethernet interface. The MAC address is assigned at the factory.
• Descriptor: This is a read-only field that reports the Access Point’s name, serial number, current image software version, and current
bootloader software version.
• Up Time: This is a read-only field that displays how long the Access Point has been running since its last reboot.
Figure 4-2 System Tab
Dynamic DNS Support
DNS is a distributed database mapping the user readable names and IP addresses (and more) of every registered system on the Internet.
Dynamic DNS is a lightweight mechanism which allows for modification of the DNS data of host systems whose IP addresses change
dynamically. Dynamic DNS is usually used in conjunction with DHCP for assigning meaningful names to host systems whose IP addresses
change dynamically.
Access Points provide DDNS support by adding the host name (option 12) in DHCP Client messages, which is used by the DHCP server to
dynamically update the DNS server.
Access Point System Naming Convention
The Access Point's system name is used as its host name. In order to prevent Access Points with default configurations from registering
similar host names in DNS, the default system name of the Access Point is uniquely generated. Access Points generate unique system
names by appending the last 3 bytes of the Access Point's MAC address to the default system name.
The system name must be compliant with the encoding rules for host name as per DNS RFC 1123. The DNS host name encoding rules are:
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Alphanumeric or hyphen characters are allowed.
• The name cannot start or end with a hyphen.
• The name cannot start with a digit.
• The number of characters has to be 63 or less. (Currently the system name length is limited to 32 bytes).