3Com 3CRWE20096A User Guide - Page 13

Setting Network Properties 13 Property Help File Location Help File Path Description s Web Server: Help files are located on the network at the specified Help File Path. s Local Drive: Help files are located on your computer at the specified Help File Path. The location of the Configuration Management System help files on the web server or on the local drive. Default Value Local Drive C:\Program Files\3Com\ 3Com Wireless Infrastructure Device Manager\Management Help\AP2000 Setting Network Properties Under System Configuration, click Network Properties. The Network Configuration page appears, where you can change the settings described below. Access Point Network This setting allows you to change the IP address of the access point. To let the access point get an IP address automatically, click Obtain an IP address automatically and click Save. To specify an IP address, click Specify an IP address, enter the IP address parameters in the spaces provided, and click Save. If you change the IP address, you cannot continue to configure the access point using the old IP address. Therefore, if you want to continue configuring this access point after you save this change, you must do the following: 1 Close your browser. 2 Return to the device manager and click Refresh. 3 Select the access point and click Configure to start a new configuration session. When you specify an IP address, the access point cannot act as a DHCP server. Make sure that clients are using IP addresses on the same network. Wireless DHCP Server If your wired network has a DHCP server, it is recommended that you use it. However, the access point provides a DHCP server so that operating systems that do not support automatic IP addressing can communicate with it. If a DHCP server does not assign it an IP address, the access point's default IP address is 169.254.xxx.1, where xxx is the last byte of the access point's MAC address. When it is acting as a DHCP server, the access point can assign up to 253 IP addresses to currently associated wireless clients. The IP addresses range from 169.254.xxx.2 to 169.254.xxx.254. If the access point detects that another DHCP server is available, all wireless clients get IP addresses from that DHCP server. If your wired LAN DHCP server goes down, the access point assigns IP addresses after the lease periods on the previous IP addresses expire. To let the access point act as a DHCP server when there is no other DHCP server available, click Enable and click Save.