User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 About this Guide
- Contents
- 2 Overview of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
- 2.1 Conventional wireless LANs
- 2.2 Elements of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
- 2.3 HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software and your network
- 2.4 HiPath Wireless Controller product family
- 3 Configuring the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 3.1 System configuration overview
- 3.2 Logging on to the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 3.3 Working with the basic installation wizard
- 3.4 Configuring the HiPath Wireless Controller for the first time
- 3.4.1 Changing the administrator password
- 3.4.2 Applying product license keys
- 3.4.3 Setting up the data ports
- 3.4.4 Setting up Internal VLAN ID and multi-cast support
- 3.4.5 Setting up static routes
- 3.4.6 Setting up OSPF Routing
- 3.4.7 Configuring filtering at the interface level
- 3.4.8 Installing certificates on the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 3.4.9 Configuring the login authentication mode
- 3.4.10 Configuring network time
- 3.4.11 Configuring DNS servers for resolving host names of RADIUS servers
- 3.5 Additional ongoing operations of the system
- 4 Configuring the Wireless AP
- 4.1 Wireless AP overview
- 4.2 Discovery and registration overview
- 4.2.1 Wireless AP discovery
- 4.2.2 Registration after discovery
- 4.2.3 Understanding the Wireless AP LED status
- 4.2.4 Configuring the Wireless APs for the first time
- 4.2.5 Defining properties for the discovery process
- 4.2.6 Connecting the Wireless AP to a power source and initiating the discovery and registration process
- 4.3 Adding and registering a Wireless AP manually
- 4.4 Configuring Wireless AP settings
- 4.4.1 Modifying a Wireless AP’s status
- 4.4.2 Configuring a Wireless AP’s properties
- 4.4.3 AP properties tab configuration
- 4.4.4 Assigning Wireless AP radios to a VNS
- 4.4.5 Configuring Wireless AP radio properties
- 4.4.6 Setting up the Wireless AP using static configuration
- 4.4.7 Configuring Telnet/SSH Access
- 4.5 Configuring VLAN tags for Wireless APs
- 4.6 Modifying a Wireless AP’s properties based on a default AP configuration
- 4.7 Modifying the Wireless AP’s default setting using the Copy to Defaults feature
- 4.8 Configuring Wireless APs simultaneously
- 4.9 Configuring an AP as a sensor
- 4.10 Performing Wireless AP software maintenance
- 5 Virtual Network Services concepts
- 6 Configuring a VNS
- 6.1 High level VNS configuration flow
- 6.2 VNS global settings
- 6.2.1 Defining RADIUS servers and MAC address format
- 6.2.2 Configuring Dynamic Authorization Server support
- 6.2.3 Defining Wireless QoS Admission Control Thresholds
- 6.2.4 Defining Wireless QoS Flexible Client Access
- 6.2.5 Working with bandwidth control profiles
- 6.2.6 Configuring the Global Default Policy
- 6.2.7 Using the Sync Summary
- 6.3 Methods for configuring a VNS
- 6.4 Working with the VNS wizard to create a new VNS
- 6.5 Working with a GuestPortal VNS
- 6.6 Creating a VNS using the advanced method
- 6.7 Working with existing VNSs
- 6.8 Configuring a Topology
- 6.9 Configuring WLAN Services
- 6.9.1 Configuring a WLAN Service
- 6.9.2 Configuring privacy
- 6.9.3 Configuring accounting and authentication
- 6.9.3.1 Vendor Specific Attributes
- 6.9.3.2 Defining accounting methods for a WLAN Service
- 6.9.3.3 Configuring authentication for a WLAN Service
- 6.9.3.4 Defining the RADIUS server priority for RADIUS redundancy
- 6.9.3.5 Configuring assigned RADIUS servers
- 6.9.3.6 Defining a WLAN Service with no authentication
- 6.9.3.7 Configuring Captive Portal for internal or external authentication
- 6.9.4 Configuring the QoS policy
- 6.10 Configuring Policy
- 6.11 Working with a Wireless Distribution System
- 6.11.1 Simple WDS configuration
- 6.11.2 Wireless Repeater configuration
- 6.11.3 Wireless Bridge configuration
- 6.11.4 Examples of deployment
- 6.11.5 WDS WLAN Services
- 6.11.6 Key features of WDS
- 6.11.7 Deploying the WDS system
- 6.11.7.1 Connecting the WDS Wireless APs to the enterprise network for discovery and registration
- 6.11.7.2 Configuring the WDS Wireless APs through the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 6.11.7.3 Assigning the Satellite Wireless APs’ radios to the network WLAN Services
- 6.11.7.4 Connecting the WDS Wireless APs to the enterprise network for provisioning
- 6.11.7.5 Moving the WDS Wireless APs to the target location
- 6.11.8 Changing the pre-shared key in a WDS WLAN Service
- 7 Availability and session availability
- 8 Configuring Mobility
- 9 Working with third-party APs
- 10 Working with the Mitigator
- 11 Working with reports and displays
- 12 Performing system administration
- 13 Glossary
- A HiPath Wireless Controller’s physical description
- B Regulatory information
- C optiPoint WL2 Configuration
- D SpectraLink Wireless Telephones
- E Default GuestPortal source code
- 2 Overview of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
Configuring a VNS
hwc_vnsconfiguration.fm
Working with a Wireless Distribution System
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Figure 22 Multiple-root WDS topology
6.11.6.4 Automatic discovery of parent and backup parent
Wireless APs
The children Wireless APs, including the Repeater Wireless AP and the Satellite
Wireless APs, scan for their respective parents at a startup.
You can configure a parent and backup parent for the children Wireless APs. The
Wireless APs will first try to negotiate a WDS link with the parent Wireless AP. If
the WDS link negotiation is unsuccessful, the Wireless AP will try to negotiate a
link with the backup parent.
6.11.6.5 Link security
The WDS link is encrypted using Advance Encryption Standard (AES).
Note: The keys for AES are configured prior to deploying the Repeater or
Satellite Wireless APs.
HiPath Wireless
Controller
Root Wireless AP 1 Root Wireless AP 2 Root Wireless AP 3
Repeater AP 1 Repeater AP 2 Repeater AP 3
Satellite AP 1 Satellite AP 2 Satellite AP 3
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