System information

 AP Discovery

Unified System Usage

AP Discovery

 To implement D-Link Unified Solution, the switch must manage the

APs.

 To manage the APs, the switch needs to find out where are the APs.

 D-Link Unified Solution implements some mechanisms for switch

and AP to discover each other:

• L2 discovery – Switch discovers AP

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L3 discovery

Switch discovers AP

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L3 discovery

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Switch discovers AP

• L3 discovery – AP discovers switch

• DHCP option 43

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With Default setting, the switch only discovers VLAN 1 (no default

setting on APs). The users need to manually locate the AP if the AP

is not in the default VLAN of the switch.