Specifications

OmniAccess Reference: AOS-W System Reference
6 Part 031652-00 May 2005
If no DNS information is available, the AP will begin using Alcatel Discovery
Protocol (ADP) to locate a switch. It will alternately send out ADP broadcast
packets and ADP multicast packets until a response is received. The multicast
packet is an IP packet directed to multicast address 224.0.82.11. If a switch is
attached to the local L2 segment, it will reply to the ADP broadcast. If a switch
has joined the ADP multicast group, the intervening network will forward the
AP multicast packets to the switch and it will reply.
DHCP Configuration
DHCP servers may be configured to return Alcatel vendor-specific options to
APs. The vendor class identifier is “AlcatelAP”, and the vendor-specific option
code is 43. A sample configuration for the open-source ISC DHCP server
follows. In this example, the Alcatel switch is located at IP address 10.1.1.10.
option serverip code 43 = ip-address;
class "vendor-class" {
match option vendor-class-identifier;
}
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subnet 10.200.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
default-lease-time 200;
max-lease-time 200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option routers 10.200.10.1;
option domain-name-servers 10.4.0.12;
option domain-name "test.com";
subclass "vendor-class" "AlcatelAP" {
option vendor-class-identifier "AlcatelAP";