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Chapter 11 FAQ ............................. 52 Appendix A List of Common IP ....................... 53 Appendix B Common service ports ......................54 Appendix C Figure index ........................55 Appendix D LICENSE STATEMENT / GPL CODE STATEMENT ............58...
0.1 Manual Description This manual applies to wireless controllers. This manual description is applied to the features and functions of wireless controllers on the LevelOne ReOS_SE software platform, and provides the methods and steps of WEB-based interface configuration. Users shall guarantee the software version they use are consistent with the contents in this manual.
Modem Server Wired client Wireless client 2) Symbol appointment Refers to basic parameters, describing the basic meaning of the parameters. If a parameter contains "*", which means this parameter is a required item. Means tips, pointing out the priorities, considerations. Means to list the contents of parallel relationship.
WAC-1001. 1.1 Key characteristics Automatically find and associate the LevelOne wireless AP, without the need to do any configuration of AP, to achieve the centralized management of AP Support real-time monitoring the AP status, automatically detect the AP for working correctly, and display...
Chapter 2 Hardware installation This chapter summarizes the appearance of ReOS_SE software platform WAC - 1000 / WAC - 1001, then describes how to install the device. 2.1 Panel description The front panel has 5 LAN ports (10/100M), an external USB interface, and the casing size is 9 inches. The front panel is shown in the schematic diagram below.
2.2 Installation Guidelines 1) Make sure that your workbench or standard rack is level and stable. 2) Do not place heavy objects on the Device. 3) Make sure that there is proper heat dissipation and adequate ventilation around the Device. 4) Position the Device out of direct sunlight and away from sources of heat and ignition.
Figure 2- 2 Attaching Brackets to the Device 1 (3) Insert the Device into the rack, and align the brackets in the rack. (4) Use the supplied screws to secure the Device in the rack, as shown in Figure 2- 3. Figure 2- 3 Mounting the Device in a Rack 2 2.5 Connecting the Device Follow these steps to connect the Device:...
Chapter 3 Logging to the Device This chapter describes how to configure TCP/IP settings on your computer, and how to login to the Device. In addition, it briefly describes the layout of the Device’s Web interface. 3.1 Configuring Your Computer To configure the Device via Web UI, you need to properly configure TCP/IP settings on the computer that you use to manage the Device.
If the Ping command is successful, the connection between the computer and the Device is working properly. If the Ping command fails, please do the following: ① Check physical connection: Verify that the LAN LED on the Device and the LED on your computer’s network card are lit.
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Figure 3-2 Web UI Home Page 1) The page shows the number of online and offline APs, and the number of wireless users online, click on the icon to refresh the number of APs and wireless users online. The icons on the top mean as follows: : Number of APs online, which means the number of online APs currently in the network.
Chapter 4 Distribution map The distribution map shows the distribution of AP in the architectural plan, so as to manage the AP in a more effective manner. In the diagram, you can import several architectural plans, edit the AP distribution locations, view the AP profile, details and other information, detect the AP anomalies, such as interference testing, load testing, etc., and manage a single unit for AP in the diagram.
Figure 4- 2 AP Summary 4.2 Details Click Map→Details, to display the AP's device name, IP address, MAC address, serial number, online client, channel and SSID on the map. Figure 4- 3 AP Details Device Name: Name of AP. IP address: IP address of AP. MAC address: AP's MAC address.
4.3 Load detection Click on Map → Load detection, to detect the proportion of the number of wireless clients accessed to AP to the AP carrying capacity. The detection results are represented by colors: Green: The proportion of the number of clients accessed to AP to the AP carrying capacity is less than 40%. Orange: The proportion of the number of clients accessed to AP to the AP carrying capacity is more than/equal to and less than 80%.
Figure 4- 5 Interference detection 4.5 Overlay Plots Click on Map → Overlay Plot, to view the coverage area of AP wireless signal. On the map, the coverage area of the AP is displayed by a circle with the AP icon as the center of a circle. Figure 4- 6 AP Overlay Plot Before viewing the coverage area chart of AP for the first time, it is required to set the scale of the map.
Figure 4- 7 Coverage distance of map 4.6 Drawings The drawings are displayed in the architectural plan in the middle of the page. You can choose different drawings from the drop-down list of the drawing, and can manage the drawings. Click on Distribution map import button, to enter the interface as shown below.
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Figure 4- 9 Drawings import Delete drawings in batch: Check the multiple drawings to be deleted, and click Delete button in the top right side of the page.
Chapter 5 Statistics In the statistics menu, the administrator can view the statistics data classified according to the SSID, radio frequency, distribution map and operating system by all wireless LAN clients, the number of accessed wireless clients and APs, the most active wireless clients, the most active APs, total input bandwidth and total output bandwidth and other statistical information.
Chapter 6 Device 6.1 AP Controller WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 can implement configuration, management, and monitoring of the entire wireless network in a centralized manner. AP management includes: Issuance software, issuance configuration, modification of relevant parameters, etc. WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 and AP can penetrate three layers of network devices between them for mutual discovery.
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When the wireless controller WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 is connected with the Fit AP by crossing three-layer network, the Option 43 mode is used; when Fit AP is connected to the wireless controller by crossing three-layer network, Fit AP can directly obtain the IP address of the wireless controller through the Option 43 attribute of DHCP, thus completing the registration on the wireless controller.
6.1.1.3 Wireless roaming on the second floor Wireless roaming means that wireless users can move in the coverage of the same VLAN when there are multiple APs existing in the network environment, and their wireless coverages overlap in a certain range; the wireless network card can automatically find the AP with the highest signal strength nearby, and receive and transmit data via this AP, thus keeping the network connection uninterrupted.
: Locationing button, to locate the AP on the distribution map. : Restart the current AP. Tip: The AP list only support the display of the information about the AP products in LevelOne WAC series, but the device of other manufacturers does not support it.
6.2.2 AP Settings Do personalized settings for each AP. Click on behind the AP name to be set, view the details of the AP, set the information about the client, system of AP. 6.2.2.1 Details In the AP list, click the Name/MAC address of AP, to show the AP details interface, in which you can view the information about the system, trends statistics, radio frequency of the current AP.
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2) Trend statistics View the number of users accessing to the current AP at the time points, wireless throughput, packet loss rate and packet error ratio. Wireless throughput: The wireless upload, download rate of the current AP. Packet loss rate: Refers to the ratio of the lost error packets to the transmitted data sets in the process of transmitting data packets.
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Figure 6- 7 Radio frequency information 2.4GHz: Displays if the AP 2.4 G function is enabled. Mode: Displays the AP wireless working mode. Rate: Displays the AP wireless rate. Channel bandwidth: Displays the channel bandwidth occupied by the wireless data transmission. Channel: Displays the channel used by the current AP.
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6.2.2.2 Clients Click on Device - > AP name - > Client, to enter the page as shown in the figure below, and the page displays the information about the client access to the AP. Fig. 6- 8 Client Name/MAC address: Displays the name or MAC address of the wireless client. IP address: Displays the IP address for the wireless client.
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Figure 6- 9 Radio frequency settings Enabling 2.4 GHz frequency band: Checking it means to enable the 2.4 GHz frequency band. Channel: This parameter is used to select the frequency band in which the wireless network works. The wireless devices in the same frequency band will interfere with each other. If there are multiple wireless devices around the AP, please select a frequency different from that of other wireless devices when setting the channel.
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Figure 6- 10 Setting of service area Service area name: Displays the name of the service area. SSID: Displays the name of wireless network. Type: Displays the application type. Frequency band: Supports two frequency bands, 2.4 G / 5 G, in which ALL means that two frequency bands of the service area will be distributed.
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3) Software upgrade In the software upgrade interface, you can view the information about the currently running version, or can update system version. First download the latest software from the LevelOne website, and then click Upgrade button for system upgrade.
Chapter 7 Users On the user page, the administrator can view all the wireless clients in the intranet. Click Online, Offline, Blacklist button to respectively manage the clients in different states. 7.1 Setting online To setup the online clients. In the user page, click the Export button in the top right corner to export the list and detailed information of the wireless clients currently online.
7.3 Blacklist settings To remove the wireless clients from the blacklist and other settings. Under this page, you can view such information as the name of the blacklist user/MAC address and the time of being pulled into the blacklist or can remove the blacklist.
Chapter 8 Log In the Log page, the system records the AP online/offline logs, wireless client online/offline logs, wireless client number alarm log and other information. You can set to display the categories of log information, or can delete and export log information. Figure 8- 1 Log information interface 1) Setting the log categories Click on Log→Setting→Category, to display the interface as shown in the figure below, and check the log...
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Figure 8- 3 Log settings - Monitoring Enable log monitoring: Checking it means to enable this feature. Email subject: Sets the subject name for monitoring. Outgoing Server: Fills the sending server address. Sender mailbox: Fills in the name of sender mailbox, such as 163. com. Sender password: Fills in the password of sender mailbox.
Chapter 9 Settings This chapter describes how to configure service areas, radio frequency template, load balancing, software version, etc. on the WAC-1000 / WAC-1001, and these configurations can be distributed to the AP as a template. 9.1 Service area In the service area, the list of configured service areas has been displayed, and the parameters of each service area in the list can be modified.
9.1.1 Wireless settings Figure 9- 2 Wireless settings Service area name: Defines the name of the service area. SSID: (Service Set Identification) defines the SSID of the service area, and a string for uniquely identifying a wireless network, case sensitive. Main use: Employees, voice, visitors, etc.
Most effective WMM sharing: Sets the percentage of the most effective WMM sharing, in order to ensure establishing a stable connection with network resources, and providing a high quality network connecting performance. Video WMM sharing: Sets the percentage of the video WMM sharing, in order to ensure establishing a stable connection with network resources, and providing a high quality video network connecting performance.
Enable the DHCP server of the device: Checking it to mean the DHCP server is enabled on this device. Name: Name of custom address pool. IP address range: Sets the range for Intranet users to obtain the IP address. Subnet mask/gateway address: The subnet mask/gateway addresses assigned by the DHCP server to the intranet computers, mobile phones and other clients automatically.
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Shared key: At this point, the client must provide the correct key to pass the authentication, otherwise it cannot be associated with the wireless devices, and cannot perform data transmission. Key format: Two formats, hexadecimal code and ASCII code are provided: When the hexadecimal code is used, the key characters can be 0 ~ 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.
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Auto: Means that the device will automatically choose encryption algorithms according to needs. TKIP: Means that all wireless data will use TKIP as the encryption algorithm. AES: Means that all wireless data will use AES as the encryption algorithm. Radius Server IP: It is the IP address of the Radius server used for identify authentication of the wireless hosts.
AES: Means that all wireless data will use AES as the encryption algorithm. Pre-shared key: The preset initialization key, with the value of 8 ~ 63 characters. Key update cycle: It is the timed update cycle used to specify the key. Value range is 60 ~ 86400, in the unit of seconds.
Bandwidth limitation: The available options are divided into exclusive and shared; Exclusive means each IP address in this range uses the bandwidth; Shared means the IP address in this range shares the bandwidth. Uplink/downlink bandwidth: Upload speed limit, download speed limit. Here, the maximum upload and download rate of IP address in this range can be set.
Template name: The name of the radio frequency template. Enable wireless function: Checking it to enable the wireless function of two frequency bands, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Mode: Chooses the wireless working mode. Channel: This parameter is used to select frequency bands in which the wireless network works. The wireless devices in the same frequency will interfere with each other, and if there are multiple wireless devices around the AP, please select a different frequency from that of other wireless devices in setting channels.
Figure 9-11 Load balancing Modify load balancing group: Click on the Edit button to modify the current load balancing configuration. Delete load balancing group: Click on the Delete button behind the corresponding load balancing group. Add load balancing group: Click on the Add button, and an interface pops up as shown in the following figure, and you can configure the AP members needing to achieving load balancing.
9.5 AP centralized management configuration instance Requirements: A small business now bought three sets of AP, and wants to set up a wireless network within the company, and must meet the following requirements: 1) The wireless network can cover the whole office area of the company. 2) With this wireless network, the company employees can use wireless terminals to access to the enterprise's internal resources and the Internet, while outsiders can only use the wireless terminals to access to the Internet, but cannot access to the enterprise’s internal resources.
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Figure 9- 14 AP centralized management configuration instance Configuration steps: 1) Access configuration Connect the WAC - 1000 / WAC – 1000 in bypass mode of the company network, here, the upper interface VLAN connected to WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 is VLAN10. 2) Interface configuration Log in to WAC-1000 / WAC-1001, to configure the LAN port, WAN port of the device, to complete the basic configuration on the Internet.
192.168.1.252; the dotted hexadecimal format is 0104C0A801FC, here, 01 represents fixed identifier while 04 represents the character length of 4 bytes. And configure the option60 field format as ASCII, and the character content as LEVELONE, this is AP supported field. 2) Environment topology...
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Figure 9- 16 Three-layer environment 3) Operation procedures (1) Click System—>Administration, and configure the TCP/IP address of WAC - 1000 / WAC - 1001 in the figure below. Figure 9- 17 AC IP address configuration (2) telnet 192.168.1.254 enters into a switch, to create a VLAN virtual interface, divide the VLAN, configure the dhcp pool corresponding to the VLAN, and configure option43 and option60 within the corresponding dhcp pool, and the detailed configuration is as follows: no service password-encryption...
Chapter 10 System management This chapter introduces the system configuration and related information about WAC-1000 / WAC-1001. 10.1 Information In the System—>Information page, the administrator can view the system information, and timely know any potential problems happening to or possibly existing in the network, thus improving network performance, and enhancing network security.
Manage VLAN: Sets the needed VLAN ID, in the range of 0-4094. Manage IP address: Sets the AC's management IP address. Subnet mask: Sets the subnet mask. Gateway address: Sets the gateway address. Primary DNS server: Sets the IP address of the primary DNS server. Secondary DNS server: Sets the IP address of the secondary DNS server.
Time zone selection: Selects the international time zone in which the device resides. Only choosing a correct time zone can the network time synchronization function work properly. Manual time setting: Manually enters the current date and time (unit: Y-M-D, H:M:S). Network time synchronization: After using the network time synchronization function to set up the right NTP server, and when the device is connected to the Internet, it will automatically synchronize the time with the set NTP server.
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Steps for upgrading the WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 software: ① Download the latest version of software of the same model from the LevelOne official website. It is recommended to back up the current configuration of the system before upgrade. ② Click on the Select file button under the software upgrade configuration in the above figure, and find the latest version of software on the local computer.
Chapter 11 FAQ A - 1 Device is used as wireless client, why can a wireless connection not be established? After confirming that the device is powered normally and connected normally, please check the following configurations of the wireless devices in the network: The "AP SSID"...
Appendix A List of Common IP Protocol Protocol No. Full name Internet Protocol ICMP Internet Protocol Message Protocol IGMP Internet Group Management Gateway-Gateway Protocol IPINIP IP in IP Tunnel Driver Transmission Control Protocol Exterior Gateway Protocol Interior Gateway Protocol PARC Universal Packet Protocol User Datagram Protocol Host Monitoring Protocol XNS-IDP...
Appendix B Common service ports Enter ESC Space ! ’ " & Characters ASCII Characters ASCII Characters < > ASCII Characters ASCII 4E 4F Characters ASCII 5D 5E Characters 6D 6E ASCII Characters ASCII 7C 7D 7E...
Appendix C Figure index Table 0- 1 Factory configuration of interfaces ................2 Figure 2- 1 Front Panel ......................4 Table 2-1 Description of LEDs ....................4 Table 2-2 Description of Ports ....................4 Figure 2- 2 Attaching Brackets to the Device 1 ................6 Figure 2- 3 Mounting the Device in a Rack 2 ................
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Figure 6- 8 Client ......................... 24 Figure 6- 9 Radio frequency settings ..................25 Figure 6- 10 Setting of service area ..................26 Figure 6- 11 System settings ....................26 Figure 6- 12 Network settings ....................27 Figure6- 13 Software upgrade diagram ..................27 Figure 7- 1 User online interface.....................
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Figure 9- 17 AC IP address configuration ................45 Figure 9- 18 AP management list .................... 47 Figure 10- 1 System information .................... 48 Figure 10- 2 Systems management ..................48 Figure 10- 3 Clock management ..................... 49 Figure 10- 4 System configuration ..................50...
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