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Part III: Installing a Wireless Network
Figure 6-3:
What the
AP can find
on its own.
• MAC address
• Dynamic or static wide area network (WAN) IP address
• Local IP address
• Subnet mask
• PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) — usually found on
DSL connections, and rarely for cable modems
The preceding list covers the AP parameters you most often encounter
and need to configure, but the list isn’t comprehensive. (Read more about
them in the “Configuring AP parameters” subsection.) You need this information
if you plan to follow the steps for modifying AP configuration,
which we cover in the later section “Changing the AP Configuration.”
(What did you expect that section to be called?) Other settings you probably
don’t need to change include the transmission rate (which normally
adjusts automatically to give the best throughput), RTS/CTS protocol
settings, the beacon interval, and the fragmentation threshold.
5. Complete the installation software, and you’re finished.
After you complete the AP setup process, you should have a working
access point ready to communicate with another wireless device.
Configuring AP parameters
Here’s a little more meat on each of the access point parameters you captured
in Step 4 of the preceding section.