User's Manual

34 CHAPTER 4: ACCESS POINT CONFIGURATION
LAN Settings The LAN Settings menu provides the following options:
The LAN Settings screen is used to determine how the LAN IP address of
your Access Point is obtained. It can be obtained automatically or you can
manually configure the IP address.
Figure 20 Unit Configuration Screen
Dynamic IP Address
3Com recommends that you manually assign your Access Point a static IP
address.
Select Dynamic IP Address (automatically allocated) and the screen shown in
Figure 20
is displayed. Check all your settings and click Apply.
If the Access Point is set to obtain an IP address automatically and is unable
to contact a DHCP server then it will allocate itself an address in the
169.254.xxx.xxx range.