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WS 2000 Wireless Switch System Reference Guide5-14
1. The Country field in the System Settings screen must be set.
2. The Access Port’s MAC Address must be set as one of the addresses that can be adopted by one of the enabled
WLANs.
3. A WLAN that can adopt Access Port must be associated with an enabled subnet. (See Configuring Wireless LANs.)
The switch can adopt up to six Access Ports at a time, but the number of Access Ports listed can exceed six in number. A
dual-radio 802.11a/b Access Port counts as one Access Port with respect to the maximum allowed; however, each radio will
be listed as a separate Access Port in the list of Access Ports.
The switch creates a default name for a newly found switch consisting of “AP” and a unique number. During this detection
process, the switch collects the following information from the Access Port:
The switch also sets several default values for the channel and the power level based upon the Location information set in
the System Settings screen and upon settings in the Access Port Default Settings screen for the radio type.
The WS 2000 Wireless Switch GUI also allows the administrator to refine the basic Access Port configuration that is set at
the point of detection. To examine or change that information:
1. Select Network Configuration --> Wireless --> Access Ports from the left menu and then click the + to the left of
the menu item. The detected Access Ports will be listed under the menu item, with the radio type listed in brackets (for
example, [B}).
2. Select the Access Port item to examine or modify. There are two ways to distinguish between Access Ports when they
are labeled with the default “AP#” name.
• Look on the bottom of the Access Ports and take note of the MAC address (which looks like AA:BB:CC:DD EE:FF) and
compare it with the MAC address in the Access Port windows.
• Note the order in which Access Ports were plugged into the switch. The Access Port numbers are assigned in order,
starting with AP1.
MAC address
Each Access Port has a unique Media Access Control (MAC) address by which it is identified. This
address is burned into the ROM of the Access Port. Also, this address appears on a sticker attached to
the bottom of the Access Port.
Radio type
This field indicates the wireless protocol that the Access Port follows. The WS 2000 Wireless Switch
supports 802.11b and 802.11 a/b dual-radio Access Ports.
Physical port
This field specifies the physical LAN port on the switch to which the Access Port is connected.
Adopted by
This field contains a list of defined WLANs that have adopted this Access Port (see Configuring
Wireless LANs and Access Port Adoption for the process of adopting an Access Port).