User Guide

OmniAccess RN: User Guide
32 Part 031650-00 May 2005
Configuring Local Switches
A single master configuration can be one with one switch, the master switch
or a master redundant configuration with one master switch and the VRRP
redundant backup switch. This section will highlight the difference in
configuration for both of these scenarios.
The steps involved in migrating from a single to a multi-switch environment
are:
1. Configure the local switch to point to the master switch IP.
2 Configure the Layer-2 / Layer-3 settings on the local switch (VLANs, IP
subnets, IP routes).
3 Configure the ports the master and local switch will use to communicate
with each other to be trusted ports.
4 Configure the LMS-IP to point to the new local switch for those APs that
need to boot off the local switch.
5 Reboot the APs if they are already on the network, so that they now con-
nect to the local switch.
These steps are explained below.
Configuring the Local Switch
There are multiple ways of doing this, using the startup dialog or the web
interface.
Using the Setup Dialog
When you power up an unconfigured Alcatel Mobility Controller, or reboot a
configured Alcatel Mobility Controller after executing a write erase, reload
sequence, you see the following setup dialog (using an Alcatel 4324 as an
example):