tailieunhanh - Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks phần 4

Một khi bạn đã thực hiện quyết định mua hàng của bạn, chúng ta hãy lùi lại một bước với phần về đọc hướng dẫn. Phần này không thể được nhấn mạnh đủ. Nhận một tách cà phê, soda, hoặc một chai nước ngọt, và nghỉ ngơi ngắn để đảm bảo rằng bạn biết những gì bạn sẽ được làm. | 108 Chapter 7 What the Instruction Manual Will Tell You Once you have made your buying decision let s take a step back to that part about reading the instruction manual. This part cannot be emphasized enough. Get a cup of coffee a soda or a fresh bottle of water and take a short break to ensure you know what you are going to be doing. Let s make this first installation a successful one so that we can concentrate on the fun aspects of wireless and become accomplished at it. You should already know whether your access point is configurable by a web browser once it is hooked up to your Ethernet connection through a serial port or USB port and special software. Without this information and following the appropriate steps installation of your access point s configuration software could fail and have to be re-done or you could end up losing control of your access point and have to reset it to factory default values and start over. We still live in an age where plug-and-play is not a 100 percent reality and many USB devices and Windows operating systems still require that you install software before connecting devices. If your access point is configurable over Ethernet via web browser or SNMP you will need to know its default IP address or if it gets an address from a DHCP server. The former is more common so you can determine a starting point to configure the server. Once you have determined software installation and connectivity and gained control of the access point with configuration software you will have to know how you want to set it up. Factors to consider include Whether to change the default IP address to an address compatible with your network How DHCP is going to be handled for clients What channel the access point uses and if you need or want to change it to a nonoverlapping channel 1 6 or 11 What security method if any you are going to use If security is used establish a security key to be set into the access point and all of your clients Table provides