User's Manual

Fig. 1. Mounting the DRBAP on a wall.
2.3. Preparing for Configuration
For you to configure a DRBAP, a managing computer with a Web browser is needed. For first-time
configuration of a DRBAP, an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) should have been installed in
the managing computer. For maintenance-configuration of a deployed DRBAP, either a wireless
computer (if the DRBAP is configured to act as an AP Repeater or Dual AP) or a wired computer
can be employed as the managing computer.
NOTE: If you are using the browser, Opera, to configure a DRBAP, click the menu item File, click
Preferences..., click File types, and edit the MIME type, text/html, to add a file extension “.sht” so
that Opera can work properly with the Web management pages of the DRBAP.
Since the configuration/management protocol is HTTP-based, we have to make sure that the IP ad-
dress of the managing computer and the IP address of the managed DRBAP are in the same IP
subnet (the default IP address of a DRBAP is 192.168.0.1 and the default subnet mask is
255.255.255.0.)
2.3.1. Connecting the Managing Computer and the DRBAP
To connect the Ethernet managing computer and the managed DRBAP for first-time configuration,
you have two choices as illustrated in Fig. 2.
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