User`s guide

2.3 Configuration steps

This section describes configuration required for the WLA-5000AP before it can work

properly in your network.

First, it is assumed that in your LAN environment, a separate DHCP server will be

available for assigning dynamic (and often private) IP addresses to requesting DHCP

clients. This means that the WLA-5000AP normally will not need to enable the DHCP

server function.

Additionally, since you need to perform various configuration changes to the 802.11A/G

ACCESS POINT, including the SSID, Channel number, the WEP key, …, etc., it is

necessary to associate a fixed IP address with the 802.11A/G ACCESS POINT, which is

why the 802.11A/G ACCESS POINT will be shipped with a factory default private IP

address of 192.168.1.1 (and a network mask of 255.255.255.0).

Therefore, during the system installation time, you need to build an isolated environment

with the 802.11A/G ACCESS POINT and a PC, and then perform the following steps:

Step 1. Manually change the IP address of the PC to become 192.168.1.3.

Step 2. Connect the PC to the 802.11A/G ACCESS POINT and change its

configuration to a static IP address based on your network environment. For

example, if there is a DHCP server that assigns IP addresses from the range

192.168.23.10 - 192.168.23.254 to DHCP client devices, it can reserve

192.168.23.10 for the 802.11A/G ACCESS POINT and then the address pool

with the DHCP server becomes 192.168.23.11 – 192.168.23.254.

If there is no DHCP server on your network environment, you just have to

make sure that there is no machine in the environment has the same IP address

as another machine.

Please note that after you change the IP address of the ACCESS POINT, the

PC client may not be able to reach the ACCESS POINT. This is because they

may no longer belong to the same IP network address space.

Step 3. Change the setting of the PC back to “obtain IP addresses dynamically”.

Now you can put the 802.11A/G ACCESS POINT and the PC to your

network where the DHCP server is connected. From then on, any wireless

client configured to “obtain IP addresses dynamically” will work with the AP,

with each other, and with devices on the wired LAN network.