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1. Introduction 1. 1 Overview T he SMC2 586W -G is a ver satile devic e that can be c onfigur ed to be in one o f the 3 oper a-tional modes — Ac ces s Point, Bridge Mas ter , and Bridge Slav e—for v arious wirele ss bridging applications .
• 64-bit and 12 8-bit WEP (Wired E quivalent Priv acy ). F or wir eless data encryp-tion. • IEEE 802. 1x/RADIUS. When the SMC2 586W -G is in Ac cess P oint mode, it c an be configur ed to authentic ate wir eless user s and distribut e encryption ke ys dynami-c ally by IEEE 80 2.
• Detachable ant enna. T he SMC25 86W -G antenna c an be replac ed with SMC high-gain antennas f or long operating r ange. • DHCP client. T he SMC2 586W -G can aut omatically obtain an IP addre ss fr om a DHCP server .
• UPnP . T he SMC2 586W -G re sponds to UPnP disc overy mes sages so that a Win-do ws XP user c an locat e the SMC25 86W -G in My Netw ork Place s and use a W eb brow ser t o con figure it . • T elne t . The SMC2 586W -G can be managed by T elnet.
2. Fir st - Time Ins tallation and C onfigur ation 2. 1 Selecting a P ow er Supply Method T he SMC2 586W -G can be pow er ed by either the supplied po wer adapt er or the optional SMCPWR-INJ3 Elit eConnect™ P ow er Injector . The SMC2 586W-G automatic ally selects the suit able pow er depending on your decision.
Fig. 2. Connecting E thernet c ables to SMCP WR-INJ3. 5. Check the “ A CTIVE” LED: if pow er is succe ssfully f ed into the SMC25 86W -G, the “ AC - TIVE” LED will be on (Red light ); otherwise, the “A C TIVE” LED will be off . 6. If the electricity curr ent is over the normal c ondition (Io°÷1.
2.3 Preparing f or C onfigur ation To co nf igure an SMC2 586W -G, a managing comput er with a W eb brow ser is needed. F or firs t-time c onfigur ation of an SMC2 586W -G, an E thernet net- w ork int erf ace c ard (NIC) should ha ve been ins talled in the managing co m- puter .
Changing the T CP /IP Set tings of the Managing C omputer Use the Windo ws Ne twork C ontrol P anel Applet t o change the TCP /IP s et- tings of the managing c omputer , so that the IP addr ess o f the comput er and the IP addre ss of the SMC2 586W -G are in the same IP subne t.
NO TE: It is str ongly r ecommended that the pass wor d be changed to other v alue for securit y re asons. On the st art page, click the Gener al, P ass wor d link to change the value o f the pa ss wo rd (s ee Section 3.
T he SMC2 586W -G supports 3 operational mode s for meeting v arious wire- less c onnectivity r equirements: • Ac ces s Point ( AP). T he AP mode enables IEEE 80 2. 11 St ations (S T As ) to auto-matic ally associat e with it via the st andard IEEE 80 2.
T he r elationships among the oper ational modes and the wireles s link t ype s are sho wn in the follo wing table: T able 1. Operational mode s vs. wir eless link type s.
St ep 3: C onfiguring IEEE 80 2. 11 Set tings Fig. 9 . IEEE 802. 11g communication s ettings. Go to the IEEE 80 2. 11, Communication s ection t o con figure IEEE 80 2. 11g- r elat ed commu-nication se ttings, including Channel number and Netw ork name (S SID ).
To enable a WDS link: 1. Specify the MA C addre ss of the AP or bridge at the other end o f the WDS link. 2. Select the c orresponding Enabled check bo x. F or e xample , assume you w ant two SMC2 586W-Gs with MA C addres ses 00-02 -65-01-62 -C5 and 00-02 -65-01-62 -C6 to est ablish a WDS link betw een them.
St ep 4: R eviewing and Applying S ettings Fig. 13. S ettings change s are highlight ed in red. On the start page , you can r eview all the s ettings y ou have made . Changes are highlight ed in red. If the y are OK, click R est art for the ne w set tings to take e ff ect.
2.5 Deploying the SMC2 586W -G Aft er the set tings hav e been con figured, deplo y the SMC2586W -G to the field application en vironment. C onnect the SMC25 86W -G to an E thernet LAN through an E thernet swit ch/hub. If e xternal high-gain dir ectional antennas ar e needed, it may be difficult t o align the antennas .
3. U sing W eb-Based Management ADD SIGNAL S TRENGH AND LINK QUALITY FEA TURE IN SLA VE BRIDGE MODE IN THIS CHAPTER 3. 1 Overview Fig. 15 The Start page . Menu Structur e Th e left side of the start page c ontains a menu f or you t o carry out com- mands.
b acking up and r est oring con figur ation, and con figur ation re set o f the SMC25 86W -G. •T C P /IP . TC P /IP-r elated se ttings. • A ddr essing. IP addr ess set tings for the SMC2 586W -G to w ork with TC P /IP . • DHCP S erv er . Settings f or the DHCP (Dynamic Host C onfigur ation Prot ocol) server on the SMC2 586W -G.
If you click Sa ve, the s tart page will r eflect the f act that the con figur ation set tings hav e been changed by sho wing tw o butt ons— R est ar t and Cancel. In addition, changes ar e highlighted in r ed. Clicking Cancel disc ar ds all the changes.
On this page , the stat us inf ormation of each ass ociated client ( ST A or Bridge Slav e ), includ-ing its MA C addre ss, IP addr ess , user name , number of b ytes it has send, number of b ytes it has r eceiv ed, and the time of its las t activity , is shown.
Sy st em ev ents ar e rec or ded in the memory of the SMC2 586W -G. The logged inf ormation is useful f or trouble shooting purposes . The s ys tem e vents ar e divided into s ev er al cat egories, and y ou can select which cat egories of ev ents to log.
• Bridge Slav e (BS). Us e this mode to pr ovide the Bridge Slav e functionality of the SMC268 2W . The Bridge Slav e mode is designed t o work in thos e net- w ork s where SMC2 682W W ireles s Bridge Mast ers ar e alre ady installed.
Fr om the table, a WD S link can be es tablish bet ween t wo APs , a BM-BS link c an be e stab-lished bet ween a Bridge Master and a Bridge Sla ve , but no wirele ss link can be e stablished be tw een a Bridge Slav e and an AP . Fig. 2 4 Connectivity Limit ation.
bro wser type s and ver sions, HTTP-bas ed firmw are management oper ations may not w ork properly with s ome W eb br ows ers . If you c annot succ essfully perform HTTP-b ased firmw are management oper ations with your W eb bro wser , try the TFTP-based method.
To re st or e con figuration o f the SMC25 86W -G by HTTP: 1. Click Bro wse and then select a corr ect configur ation .hex file . Y ou have t o make sur e the file name is the SMC2586W -G_Back up.he x. The file path will be shown in the C on-figur ation file name te xt bo x.
6. Choose TFTP as the Firm w are management prot ocol. 7. Specify the IP addr ess of the c omputer , which acts as a TFTP serv er . If y ou don ’t know the IP addr ess of the c omputer , open a Command Pr ompt from the c omputer running the TFP server , and t ype IpCon fig, then pres s the Enter key .
B acking up and Res toring C onfigur ation Set tings by TFTP Fig. 33 . Con figur ation back up/ r est ore . To b ack up con figur ation of the SMC2 586W -G by TFTP: 1. Use a c omputer that will serv e as a TFTP serv er and as a managing c omput er to trigger the b ackup pr ocess.
the con figur a-tion back up file re sides. A c onfigur ation backup file is named SMC25 86W -G_Back up.he x. 5. On the comput er , run a W eb bro ws er and click the General, Firm ware T ools h yperlink. 6. Choose TFTP as the Firm w are management prot ocol.
T he IP addr ess o f the SMC2 586W -G can be manually s et (S et Manually) or automatic ally assigned b y a DHCP server on the LAN ( Obt ain from a DHCP Se rv er – enabled b y de-fault ).
DHCP Mappings Fig. 3 7 St atic DHCP mappings. IP addre sse s of serv ers ar e often st atic so that clients c ould alw ay s locat e the serv ers b y the static IP addr esses . By using St atic DHCP Mappings , y ou c an ensur e that a host will get the same IP addr ess when it r equest s one from the DHCP s erver .
Fo r specific needs such as con figuring the SMC2 586W -G as a wireless LAN- t o-LAN bridge , the AP functionality can be disabled, s o that no wireles s client can as sociate with the SMC2 586W -G.
Wir eless Dis tribution S yst em Fig. 40 Wir eless Dis tribution S yst em. Tr aditionally , acce ss points ar e connect ed by E thernet. B y IEEE 802. 11 Wir eless Dis tribution S ys tem (WDS ), APs c an communic ate with one another wirele ssly . F or e xample , in Fig.
Fig. 42 Wir eless Distribution S yst em set tings. To enable a WDS link: 3. Specify the MA C addre ss of the AP or bridge at the other end o f the WDS link.
W ARNING: Do not let your net work topology c onsist of wir eless bridges, E therne t swit ches, E thernet links, and WDS link s that form a loop . If there are an y loops that exist , pack ets will cir cle around the loop s and netw ork performanc e will be seriously degr aded.
Wir eless Client Is olation is a f eatur e for the SMC2 586W -G in AP or Bridge Mast er mode to block wir eless -to-wirele ss tr affic bet ween S T As so that the ST As cannot see each other . This f eatur e is useful f or WLANs deploy ed in public place s.
As illustr ated in Fig. 46 when AP 1 and AP 2 are using the “T his AP Only” option, AP1 blocks wir eless tr affic bet ween S T A 1 and ST A 2, while wir eless tr affic bet ween S T A 2 and ST A 3, which ar e associated with dif fer ent APs, is s till allow ed.
with v arious WLAN netw ork adapter s. T here ar e thr ee options av ailable, including Open S ys tem, Shar ed K ey , and Auto . W hen WEP is enabled b y a security mode , the Ke y length can be specified to be 64 Bits or 12 8 Bits.
2. Set the A ccess co ntrol type t o inclusive . 3. Specify the MA C addre ss of a wir eless client to allo w acc ess , and then click A dd. 4. R epeat St ep 3 for each other wir eless client. To delet e an entr y in the acc ess contr ol table: • Click Delet e ne xt to the entry .
IEEE 802. 1x/RADIUS IEEE 802. 1x Port -Based Net work A cc ess C ontrol is a ne w standar d for solving s ome secu-rity is sues ass ociated with IEEE 80 2. 11, such as lack of user-b ased authentication and dy -namic encryption ke y distribution. With IEEE 80 2.
SMC25 86W -G supports IEEE 802. 1x and can be c onfigur ed to c ommunicat e with tw o RADIUS serv ers. When the primary R ADIUS server f ails to r espond, SMC25 86W -G will try to c ommunicat e with the sec ondary RADIUS serv er .
E therne t T ype Filter s Fig. 53 E thernet t ype filter s set tings. T he E thernet t ype filed of the MAC (Media A cces s Contr ol) header of a p ack- et incoming fr om the WLAN or Ethernet int erfac e is inspected f or filtering. In a rule, specif y the hex -decimal Ethernet t ype number and give the rule a name.
TC P /UDP Port Filter s Fig. 55 T CP /UDP port filters se ttings. T he des tination port field the TCP or UDP he ader of a pack et inc oming from the WLAN or Etherne t interf ace is inspected f or filtering.
NO TE: Mak e sure y ou hav e installed the nec essary Window s UPnP c omponents on y our Window s XP comput er . Sys t em Log Fig. 58 S yst em log set tings.
SNMP Fig. 5 9 SNMP set tings. T he SNMP ( Simple Netw ork Management Protoc ol) functionality c an be dis- abled, and you c an specify the name (us ed as a pass wor d) of the re ad-only and re ad-write c ommunity . In addition, up t o 5 SNMP tr ap tar gets c an be set in the SNMP T rap T able.
4. EliteC onnect Management Utility 4. 1. Introduction T his chapt er give s introduct ory inf ormation, such as the design goal and f ea- tu re s, on SMC EliteC onnect™ Management Utility .
• DNS domain name . DNS (Domain Name S ys tem ) domain name of the devic e . Th es e information it ems serve as memos f or the netw ork administrat or and they ar e optional.
• Con figuring b y W eb bro wser . Launching the def ault W eb bro wser t o manage the select ed devic e. •B atch proc essing. Applying a net work management c ommand to multiple devic es at a time . The f ollowing c ommands are support ed: • Check Alive .
Overvie w Us er Interf ace Fig. 60 Main user int erf ace . T he main user int erfac e of Elit eConnect Management Utilit y is three-p aned. T he upper right pane is the De vice List Vie w , which show s the devic es t o manage.
C onnecting the Managing PC and a Managed De vice Y ou need at least one SMC25 82W -B EliteC onnect 802. 11b Wirele ss Bridge or SMC25 86W -G EliteC onnect 802. 11g Wir eless Bridge t o follo w the remainder of the tutorial. C onnect the PC on which EliteC onnect Management Utility will run and the devic e with Etherne t.
Fig. 62 De vice Properties dialog bo x. On the left side of the title bar o f the Devic e Pr operties dialog box is a “Pin ” butt on. Click this butt on to pin the dialog bo x (the ic on will be changed t o ) so that it will alw ays s ta y on top of other windo ws.
E diting the De vice List Fig. 63 Edit menu. S elect the desired de vice it em from the de vice list. Y ou can select c onsecutiv e devic e items b y clicking while holding the Shift key . And y ou can select incons ecutive de vice it ems by clicking while holding the C trl ke y .
of EliteConnect Man- agement Utility and an empt y new de vice lis t file have been opened. Filtering the De vice List Fig. 65 Filt er Vie w of the W orkspace windo w . Y ou can filter a de vice lis t by clicking a tr ee item on the Filt er tab o f the W orkspace windo w .
Fig. 6. Sorting by IP addr ess , in de scending or der . NO TE: If a newly opened de vice lis t file is sorted, an ast erisk mark “*” will be added to the file name sho wn in the title bar of Elit eConnect Management Utility , which means the c ontents o f the devic e list file hav e been modified.
Any de vice list columns c an be hidden by cle aring corr esponding check box es ne xt to the menu items o f the Columns sub-menu o f the Vie w menu. Clicking an unchecked menu it em shows its c orr esponding devic e list c ol- umn, and the menu item bec omes check ed ne xt time you open the C olumns sub-menu.
Fig. 7 2 History Log V iew . Co nf iguring a De vice by W eb Brow ser S elect the de vice it em in the devic e list, which r epresent s the SMC25 82W -B or SMC25 86W -G y ou use for this t utorial, and then c arry out the Co nf igure by W eb Bro ws er c ommand on the Devic e menu.
T he main user int erfac e of Elit eConnect Management Utilit y consist s of three-p aned. The upper right pane is the De vice List Vie w , which show s the devic es t o manage. T he upper left pane is the W orkspace W indow , which enables y ou to filt er the active de vice list or s witch t o another devic e list.
Filter V iew Fig. 7 5 Filter Vie w . EliteC onnect Management Utility analy ses the structur e of the de vice s items in the active de vice lis t and show s the re sults in a tree f ashion on the Filter t ab o f the W orkspace win-do w . The activ e device lis t can be filt ered b y click- ing a tree it em (see S ection 4.
File Vie w Fig. 7 6 File Vie w . T he File t ab of the W orkspace windo w lists all opened devic e list files so that y ou t o quickly switch be tw een them ( see Section 4 .3.3.8 for mor e informa- tion). Hist ory Log Vie w Fig. 77 Hist ory Log Vie w .
• Close . Close the active document . •S a v e . Sa ve the active document. •S a v e As. Sa ve the active document with a ne w name. • Print. Print the active document. • Print Pre view . Displa y full pages. • Print Setup . Change the print er and printing options.
•C onfigur e by W eb Bro wser . Launch the def ault W eb brow ser to con figur e the firs t selected de vice. • Change SSID . Change the SSID s etting o f select ed devic e. • Change P ass wor d. Change the p ass wor d set ting of select ed device .
Shortcut Menu Fig. 7 8 Shortcut menu Right clicking anywher e within the Device Lis t Vie w brings up a shortcut menu as shown in Fig. 7 8 The commands on the short cut menu ar e short- cuts t o some of the main menu c ommands. •C u t —Cut c ommand on the E dit menu •C o p y — Co py c ommand on the E dit menu.
c ommand on the De vice menu. •R es to re Co nf iguration b y HTTP—Rest ore Con figuration b y HTTP c ommand on the De vice menu. •P r operties—Properties c ommand on the View menu. T oolbars T oolbar commands ar e shortcuts t o some of the main menu c ommands.
• Check Alive on the De vice menu. •C onfigur e by W eb Bro ws er on the Devic e menu. • Change P ass wor d on the Device menu. • Change SSID on the De vice menu. • Change RADIUS Serv ers on the Devic e menu. • Upgr ade Firmw are b y TFTP on the Devic e menu.
Fig. 81 Floating W orkspace windo w . Fig. 82 His tory L og View dock ed to the right side . 68.
Re arranging the C olumn Order of the De vice List Vie w Fig. 83 Re arr anging the column or der by a dr ag-and-dr op oper ation. T he c olumn order c an be rearr anged by dr ag-and-dr op oper ations. Just dr ag a column header and dr op it to another position.
General Options Fig. 85 Gener al tab. On this tab , you c an specify the action tak en when a device it em in the active de vice lis t is double-clicked, the number o f simultaneous de vice man- agement commands , and whether the Devic e P ass wor d List function will be enabled.
Fig. 86 A sample Devic e P ass wor d List. S elect the Us e the f ollowing De vice P assw ord List inst ead of asking f or devic e user name and pas sw ord check bo x, and specify the location o f the devic e pass word lis t file by clicking the “…” but ton.
se rver f or devic e firmw are upgr ade. EliteC onnect Management Utility supports a “pull” s tyle and a “push ” st yle of device firm w are upgr ade. T he pull style is achie ved by HTTP and TFTP , while the push st yle is solely achiev ed by HTTP .
HTTP Options Fig. 89 HTTP t ab. On this tab , you c an con figure beha vior par ameter s of EliteC onnect Management Utility’ s Web client engine—Micr osoft Int ernet Explor er contr ol. Y ou may ref er to Micro soft document ation about how t o pick good v alues for C onnect r etries , Connect timeout, R eceive timeout, and S end timeout .
Fig. 90 Devic e Pr operties dialog box. To add a new devic e item to the activ e devic e list, click Ne w De vice on the Insert menu. And then a new de vice item is added t o the devic e list and the Devic e Properties dialog box ap-pe ars f or you t o enter devic e properties .
Click a devic e item t o select it. A select ed devic e item is highlight ed. Multiple Cons ecutive Selections Fig. 9 2 Multiple consecutiv e selections. To se lect a block of c onsecutiv e devic e items: 1. Click the firs t item o f the block. 2. Click the last it em of the block while holding the Shift k ey .
more in formation ). E diting the De vice List Fig. 94 E dit menu. Y ou can use the commands on the E dit menu to edit the active de vice lis t. Ref er to Section 4.3 . 1.5 for e xplanations of the commands. Filter the De vice List Fig. 95 Devic e list filt ering.
Devic e List V iew . F or e xample , if you click the IP A ddr ess header , the devic e list will be sort ed in ascending or der by IP addr ess, as sho wn by Fig. 96 Fig. 96 Sorting b y IP addre ss, in asc ending or der . Clicking the IP Addr ess header one mor e time sorts the device lis t in desc ending or der , as sho wn by Fig.
Vie wing All Opened Devic e List Files Fig. 98 Vie wing all opened device lis t files. Y ou can swit ch between all opened de vice list files b y clicking the corr espon- ding tree it ems on the File tab of the W orkspac e window .
window s so that the y ov erlap. T iling Windo ws Fig. 101 Tiled windo ws. T he T ile c ommand on the W indow menu arr anges the Devic e List Vie w win- dow s as non-ov erlapping tiles. Arranging Minimiz ed Windows Fig. 102. Minimiz ed window s put in order .
5. Monitor the pr ogress o f the command in the His tory L og Vie w . 6. See the r esults o f the command in the Hist ory Log V iew and in the S tatus c olumn o f the Devic e List Vie w .
Changing the SSID Se tting o f Devic es To change the SSID set ting of select ed devic e , carry out the Change SSID c ommand. Y ou’ll be prompt ed to specify the ne w SSID .
SMC25 86W -G don ’t support multiple administration us er name/ pass wor d p air s.) If the Devic e P ass wor d List functionality is disabled, C urr ent admin. user name and C urr ent admin . pass wor d, New user name will not be sho wn in the Changing User Name and P assw ord dialog bo x.
Re st oring Devic e Con figuration C arry out the R est ore Con figur ation by TFTP command. Managing Devic e Firmw are by HTTP To manipulate firmw are and c onfigur ation files of e very select ed devic e by HTTP , carry out the v arious By-HTTP c ommands.
Printing the Activ e Device List To print the active devic e list, c arry out the Print command on the File menu. And you c an previe w the pages that will be printed b y carrying out the Print Pre view command.
S ending the A ctive De vice List to Other s by E -mail T he activ e devic e list can be s ent to other s by e-mail. Click S end on the File menu to do this . Appendix A: Def ault Set tings TIP: Pre ss the Def ault button on the po wered-on SMC2 586W -G to r ese t the co nf igur ation settings t o f actory-def ault value s.
• Make appr opriate WEP set tings of the client c omputer t o match tho se of the SMC2586W -G. • Is the pro spective SMC2 586W-G within r ange of wir eless c ommunication ? • Check the signal str ength and link quality s ensed by the WLAN NIC. TC P/ IP Set tings Problems Fig.
the IP ad-dre ss of the SMC2 586W -G are in the same IP subne t. TIP: If you f orget the curr ent IP address o f the SMC25 86W -G, use W irele ss R outer / AP Bro ws er to get the in formation ( see Appendix B- 3).use the SMC Sc an utilit y that is on the CD .
pow er connect or from the po wer jack, and then re-plug the c onnect or to r estart the SMC2 586W -G. •C ontact our technic al support repr esent ative s to r eport this problem, If this happens after a f ailed firmw are upgr ade proc ess , the firmw are of the SMC25 86W -G may ha ve been c orrupted.
this and ev ery pr oduct we sell with a 3 0 day satisf action guarant ee and with a limited-lif etime warr anty . St andards: •8 0 2 . 11b •8 0 2 . 11g •8 0 2 . 3 •8 0 2 . 3 u •8 0 2 . 3af Data r ate & modulation: • OFDM@54Mbps, C CK@11/5.
802. 11g Wir eless Dis tance T able Envir onmental Condition Speed and Distanc e Ranges P ow er S upply: • Input: 100V A C 60Hz • Output: 12VDC, 1A Dimensions ( without antenna): • 8.
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