Setting Network Properties - 3Com 6000 User Manual

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Setting Network
Properties
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In the Configuration Management System navigation tree under System
Configuration, click Network Properties. The Network Configuration page
appears, where you can change the settings shown in the table below.
Setting Description
Access Point Network This setting allows you to change the IP address of the access point.
To let the access point get an IP address automatically, click Obtain an
IP address automatically and click Save.
To specify an IP address, click Specify an IP address, enter the IP address
parameters in the spaces provided, and click Save.
If you change the IP address, you cannot continue to configure the
access point using the old IP address. Therefore, if you want to
continue configuring this access point after you save this change, you
must do the following:
1 Close your browser.
2 Return to the Access Point Management tool Wireless Network Tree
3 Select the access point and click Configure to start a new
When you specify an IP address, the access point cannot act as a DHCP
server. Make sure that clients are using IP addresses on the
same network.
Wireless DHCP Server If your wired network has a DHCP server, it is recommended that you
use it. However, the access point provides a DHCP server so that
operating systems that do not support automatic IP addressing can
communicate with it.
The access point's default IP address is 169.254.xxx.1, where xxx is the
last two bytes of the access point's MAC address. When it is acting as a
DHCP server, the access point can assign up to 253 IP addresses to
currently associated wireless clients. The IP addresses range from
169.254.xxx.2 to 169.254.xxx.254.
If the access point detects that another DHCP server is available, all
wireless clients get IP addresses from that DHCP server.
If your wired LAN DHCP server goes down, the access point assigns IP
addresses after the lease periods on the previous IP addresses expire.
To let the access point act as a DHCP server when there is no other
DHCP server available, click Enable and click Save.
To turn off the access point DHCP server capability regardless of
whether or not another DHCP server is available, click Disable and
click Save.
and click Refresh.
configuration session.