Brocade Mobility RFS7000-GR Controller System Reference Guide (Supporting software release 4.1.0.0-040GR and later) - Manual (Page 220)

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Viewing access port adoption defaults
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To configure a radio’s rate settings:
1. Click the Rate Settings button in the radio edit screen to launch a screen wherein rate settings
can be defined for the radio.
2. Check the boxes next to all Basic Rates you want supported by this radio.
Basic Rates are used for management frames, broadcast traffic and multicast frames. If a rate
is selected as a basic rate it is automatically selected as a supported rate.
3. Check the boxes next to all Supported Rates you want supported by this radio.
Supported Rates allow an 802.11 network to specify the data rate it supports. When a station
attempts to join the network, it checks the data rate used on the network. If a rate is selected
as a basic rate it is automatically selected as a supported rate.
4. Click the Clear all rates button to uncheck all of the Basic and Supported rates.
5. Refer to the Status field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field
displays error messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and
the switch.
6. Click OK to use the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.
7. Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.
Configuring Layer 3 access port adoption
The configuration activity required for adopting Access Ports in a layer 3 environment is unique. In
a layer 3 environment, switch discovery is attempted in the following ways:
• On the local VLAN
• Through the DHCP Server
Initially, the Access Port attempts to find its wireless switch by broadcasting a Hello packet on its
local VLAN. During this activity:
1. All switches on the VLAN that receive this Hello packet respond with a parent packet.
2. If no response is received, the Access Port attempts to discover its switch by first obtaining an
IP address from a DHCP (or DNS) server and checking the options field within the DHCP
response.