Specifications

Configuring Access Points
9-32 Configuring Access Points
ThenexttimetheDistributedAPisbooted,itwillusethespecifiedIPinformation.Ifthemanually
assignedIPinformationisincorrect,theAPusesDHCPtoobtainitsIPaddress,asdescribedin
“HowaDistributedAPContactsanRBTSwitch(StaticallyConfiguredAddress)”onpage 9‐8
instead
ofthedefaultbootprocedure.
Specifying RoamAbout Switch Information
TospecifytheRoamAboutSwitchaDistributedAPcontacts andattemptstouseasitsbootdevice,
usethefollowingcommand:
set dap dap-num boot-switch [switch-ip ip-addr] [name name dns ip-addr] [mode
{enable | disable}]
YoucanspecifytheRoamAbout Switchbyitsfullyqualifieddomainname;inthiscase,youalso
specifythe addressoftheDNSserverusedtoresolvetheRoamAboutSwitch’sname.Ifyou
specifyboththeaddressoftheRoamAboutSwitch,andtheRoamAboutSwitch’snameandDNS
serveraddress,then
theAPignorestheRoamAboutSwitch’saddres sandusesthename.
WhenastaticIPaddressisspecifiedforaDistributedAP,thereisnopreconfiguredDNS
informationorDNSnamefortheRoamAboutSwitchtheDistributedAPattemptstouseasits
bootdevice.IfyouconfigureastaticIP
addressforaDistributedAP,butdonotspecifyaboot
device,thentheRoamAboutSwitchmustbereachableviasubnetbroadcast.
Examples
ThefollowingcommandconfiguresDistributedAP1tousetheRoamAboutSwitchwithaddress
172.16.0.21asitsbootdevice.
RBT-8100# set dap 1 boot-switch switch-ip 172.16.0.21 mode enable
success: change accepted.
Thefollowi ngcommandconfiguresDistributedAP1tousetheRoamAboutSwitchwiththename
RAS2asitsbootdevice.TheDNSserverat172.16.0.1isusedtoresolvethenameofthe
RoamAboutSwitch.
RBT-8100# set dap 1 boot-switch name RAS2 dns 172.16.0.1 mode enable
success: change accepted
Specifying VLAN information
Tospecify802.1QVLANtagginginformationforaDistributedAP,usethefollowingcommand:
set dap dap-num boot-vlan vlan-tag tag-value [mode {enable | disable}]
Whenthiscommandisconfigured,allEthernetframesemittedfromtheDistributedAPare
formattedwithan802.1QtagwithaspecifiedVLANnumber.Framessenttothe DistributedAP
thatarenottaggedwiththisvalueareignored.
Example
ThefollowingcommandconfiguresDistributedAP1touseVLANtag100:
RBT-8100# set dap 1 boot-vlan vlan-tag 100 mode enable
success: change accepted.