Fortigate Wireless Controller; Connecting The Hardware - Fortinet Wireless Starter Kit Manual

FortiOS wireless controller
FortiOS wireless controller

Connecting the hardware

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The FortiOS wireless controller feature enables FortiGate and FortiWiFi units to manage
FortiAP units. The wireless controller configuration is composed of three types of objects:
Virtual AP — defines the security settings for your wireless network. This is similar to the
wlan interface settings on a FortiWiFi unit and it creates a virtual network interface.
AP Profile — defines the radio settings, such as band (802.11g for example) and channel
selection. It also selects the Virtual APs to which the settings apply. Any change to the AP
Profile affects all APs assigned to that profile.
Physical AP — represents the FortiAP units that the wireless controller has discovered.
There is one physical access point definition for each FortiAP unit. The Physical AP
configuration selects the AP Profile that applies that FortiAP unit.
Connect all of the hardware as described below.
To connect the FortiAP unit to the wireless controller
1 Connect Port 0 of one FortiAP unit to one of the Internal ports on the FortiGate unit.
2 Connect Port 0 of the other FortiAP unit to the DMZ port on the FortiGate unit.
1 After mounting the FortiAP unit, connect the Ethernet cable to Port 0 and connect the
power supply to the Power jack.
2 Connect the WAN1 port of the FortiGate unit to the Internet.
3 At each FortiAP unit, connect the power supply (or the power cable of the POE unit) to
the Power jack.
4 Connect the power supply to the FortiGate unit.
The FortiGate supply is rated at 3A. The FortiAP supplies are 1.5A.
FortiAP™ Wireless Starter Kit
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