Enabling The Ap And Peer Switch Discovery - D-Link DWS-3000 Series User Manual

D-Link Unified Access System
4 To set the static IP address, enter the following command:
set management static-ip <ipaddress> static-mask <subnet_mask>
For example:
set management static-ip 192.168.22.133 static-mask 255.255.255.0
5 To set the default gateway, enter the following command:
set static-ip-route gateway <gateway_ip> mask <subnet>
For example,
set static-ip-route gateway 102.168.22.1 mask 255.255.255.0
6 From the CLI, enter save-running to save the configuration to memory.
You can use the Unified Switch as a DHCP server. If you plan to use the Unified Switch as the DHCP server that responds
to DHCP requests from the AP, see

Enabling the AP and Peer Switch Discovery

The D-Link Unified Switch can discover peer Unified Switches and D-Link Access Points regardless of whether these
devices are connected to each other, located in the same Layer 2 broadcast domain, or attached to different IP subnets.
You can enable discovery between the D-Link Access Point and D-Link Unified Switch by using one of following four
mechanisms:
• Use VLANs to broadcast the D-Link Wireless Device Discovery Protocol.
• Connect to the access point CLI and manually add the IP address of the switch.
• Configure a DHCP server to include the switch IP address in the DHCP response to the AP DHCP client request.
• Manually add the IP address of the AP to the switch. Multiple peer switches might find the same access point. The first
association always takes precedence. The AP does not change its association unless the connectivity to the current
Unified Switch fails or the switch tells the AP to disassociate and associate with another switch.
The following sections describe each discovery mechanism.
D-Link Wireless Device Discovery Protocol
The Wireless Device Discovery Protocol is part of the D-Link Wireless AP Protocol (DWAPP). It is a good discovery method
to use if D-Link Unified Switches and D-Link Access Points are located in the same Layer 2 multicast domain. The D-Link
Unified Switch periodically sends a multicast packet containing the discovery message on each VLAN enabled for discovery.
You can enable the discovery protocol on up to 16 VLANs.
By default, VLAN 1 is enabled on the AP, and VLAN 1 is enabled for discovery on the Unified Switch. If the switch and AP
are in the same Layer 2 multicast domain, you might not need to take any action to enable AP-to-Switch discovery.
If the switch has discovered a new AP by using L2 discovery and the MAC address of the AP is not in the Valid AP database,
the AP appears in the list on the Monitoring > Access Point > Authentication Failed Access Points page. To view AP
authentication failures from the CLI, enter show wireless ap failure status in Privileged EXEC mode.
The APs process the discovery message only when it comes in on the management VLAN. The APs do not forward the L2
discovery messages onto the wireless media.
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