User guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Initialization
- Managing the Access Point
- Basic Configuration for an Enterprise
- Access Point Features
- Using Web Interface to Manage the Access Point
- Using SNMP Interface to Manage the Access Point
- Using CLI to Manage the Access Point
- Global Configuration Mode
- General Notes
- Configuring the AP using CLI Commands
- Command Line Interface Mode Overview
- User Exec Mode
- Privileged Exec Mode
- Show Command Tree Structure Command
- Show VLAN Command
- Show MAC ACL Command
- Show RADIUS Server Table Command
- Show RADIUS Supported Profile Table Command
- Show Security Wireless Config Table Command
- Show QoS Profile and Policy Command
- Show QoS EDCA Command
- Show Wireless Properties Command
- Show 11n Wireless Properties Command
- Wireless VAP Command
- Ethernet Interface Command
- Network Configuration Command
- Advaned Filter and Global Filter Command
- TCP-UDP and Static MAC Address Table Commands
- Protocl Filter, Filter Type and Filter Control Table Command
- Access Control and HTTP, Telnet and TFTP Commands
- SNMP Read, Read-Write Password and Trap Host Table Command
- Country Code and Management Commands
- System Information Command
- System Inventory Management Command
- Event Logand ICMP Commands
- IP ARP Statistics and SNTP Command
- Syslog configuration and RADIUS Client Authentication Table Commands
- RADIUS Client Access Command
- Interface Statistics Command
- Wireless Station Statistics Command
- IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway Command
- Scalar Objects Commands
- Table Entries Commands
- Table Entry Deletion Command
- Table Entry Edition Command
- VAP Table Commands
- Troubleshooting
- ASCII Character Chart
- Bootloader CLI
- Specifications
- Technical Services and Support
- Statement of Warranty
Access Point Features AP-800 User Guide
Configuring the Device
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• Message Response Time: This parameter represents the response time in seconds that the AP should wait for the
RADIUS server to respond to a request. The range is between 3 to 12 seconds.
• ReAuthentication Period: This parameter represents the time interval in seconds for performing 802.1x
re-authentication (EAP re-authentication) for 802.1x enabled client/stations.
NOTE: If the value is set to “0”, then the re-authentication is disabled. This parameter does not apply for clients using
RADIUS MAC Authentication.
You have four radius profiles available for configurations:
• Server Type: There are four radius profiles available for configurations: Primary Authentication Server, Secondary
Authentication Server, Primary Accounting Server, and Secondary Accounting Server.
• IP Address: The parameter represents the IP address of the Radius servers.
• Server Port: This parameter represents the port number which the AP and the server will use to communicate.
• Shared Secret: This parameter represents the password shared by the RADIUS server and the AP. It must be the
same password that is configured on the RADIUS server.
MAC ACL Features
• Operation Type: This parameter is used for configure MAC ACL operation type.
While adding the MAC ACL row, following are the parameters:
• MAC Address: This parameter represents the valid MAC address of the MAC ACL.
• Comment: This parameter is an optional and is used for entering a comment.
QoS
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)/Quality of Service (QoS) Introduction
The AP supports Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), which is a solution for QoS functionality based on the IEEE 802.11e
specification. WMM defines enhancements to the 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 enhancement 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) and network elements (QoS/WME aware APs, STAs), and configuration management.
WME supports Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) for prioritized QoS services. The WME/QoS feature can
be enabled or disabled per VAP.
Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA)
WME uses Enhanced Distributed Channel Access, a prioritized CSMA/CA access mechanism used by WME-enabled
clients/AP in a WME enabled BSS to realize different classes of differentiated Channel Access.
A wireless Entity is defined as all wireless clients and APs 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 that contends for the wireless medium as if it were a separate
client contending for the wireless medium. 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.
STA EDCA Table and AP EDCA Table
This page is used to configure the client (STA) and AP Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) parameters. You
can modify the EDCA values for Wireless.
The EDCA parameter set provides information needed by the client stations for proper QoS operation during the wireless
contention period. These parameters are used by the QoS enabled AP to establish policy, to change policies when