Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product OfficeConnect WX1200 3Com
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Part No. 730- 9502-0048, Re vision B Published Nove mber 2004 W IR ELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE This document descr ibes how to do the following: ■ Use the quickstart command to per form basic system configuration of a Wireless LAN switch (WX) running Mobility System Software V e rsion 3.
2 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE ■ EAP (802.1X) key p air an d self-signed certificate (generated if you type usernames and passwords for users of encrypt ed SSIDs) ■ .
Preparing Clients 3 3COMWX. mynetwork .com, where the DNS suffix for mynetwork .com is learned through DHCP . The WX relays information ab out WX switches in the network that contain a Distributed MAP configura- tion specific to that Distributed MAP .
4 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE 18 Click OK to close the Network Connection dialo g box. Using the quickstart Command This example configures the f ollowing parameters: ■ System name: WX1200-Corp ■ Country code (regulator y domain): US ■ System IP addres s: 10.
Using the quickstart Command 5 Figure 1 Single-Switch Deploymen t T o run the quickstart command: 1 Attach a PC to the WX switch’ s serial console port. (Use these modem settings: 9600 bps, 8 b its, 1 stop, no parity , hard ware flow contro l disabled.
6 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE Another questio n the script asks is, “Do you wish to configur e wireless?” If you answer y , the script goes on to ask you for SSID an d user inform ation, for unencrypted and encrypted SSIDs.
Using the quickstart Command 7 success: created keypair for admin success: created self-signed certificate for admin success: created keypair for eap success: created self-signed certificate for eap s.
8 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE Configuring a Mobility Domain for Roaming This pr ocedure configures multiple WX switches to form a Mobility Domain. A Mobility Domain allows users to seamlessly roam fr om one WX switch to another .
Opening the QuickStart Network Plan in 3WXM 9 WX1200-Corp# save config Configuring a Member 1 Use the quickstart command to con figure basic system parameters on a second switc h (WX1200-Corp2) . 2 Configur e WX1200-Corp2 as a member of the Mobil- ity Domain.
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