Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Management and Monitoring Capabilities
- Device Initialization
- Basic Configuration
- Device Configuration
- Device Management
- Device Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Frequency Domains and Channels
- Bootloader CLI and Scan Tool
- ASCII Character Chart
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Statement of Warranty
- Technical Services and Support
Device Configuration
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Configure the following parameters:
Click Add, to add the new wireless client configured.
:
• The maximum number of MAC addresses that you can add is 1024.
• For a single VAP, Local MAC-ACL authentication and RADIUS MAC authentication cannot be enabled at the same time.
5.6 Quality of Service (QoS)
The AP device supports Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), also known as Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), which is a solution
for QoS functionality based on the IEEE 802.11e specification. WMM defines enhancements to the Media Access Control
(MAC) for wireless LAN applications with Quality of Service requirements, which include transport of voice and video traffic
over IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs.
The enhancements are in the form of changes in protocol frame formats (addition of new fields and information elements)
addition of new messages, definition of new protocol actions, channel access mechanisms (differentiated control of access to
medium), network elements (QoS/WME aware AP devices, wireless clients), and configuration management.
WME supports Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) for prioritized QoS services. The WMM/QoS feature can be
enabled or disabled per VAP.
The various QoS features supported by the AP device are described in the following sections:
• Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA)
• 802.1d to IP DSCP
• 802.1d to 802.1p
• QoS Profile
• QoS Policy
5.6.1 Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA)
EDCA is a prioritized Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA)/CA access mechanism used by the
clients/AP device in a WME enabled BSS to realize different classes of differentiated Channel Access.
A wireless entity is defined as, all wireless clients and devices in the wireless medium contending for the common wireless
medium. EDCA uses a separate channel access function for each of the Access Categories (Index) within a wireless entity.
Each channel access function in a wireless entity contends for the wireless medium as if it were a separate client contending.
Different channel access functions in a given wireless entity contend among themselves for access to the wireless medium in
addition to contending with other clients.
Parameter Description
MAC Address Specifies the MAC Address of a wireless client being added. To configure, enter the MAC
address of the wireless client.
Comment Specifies any comment to be entered in the Comment box.
Entry Status Specifies the entry status of the added wireless client.
By default, the Entry Status for a wireless client is enabled. To configure, select Enable or
Disable from the drop down menu.