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2. Access Point Discovery 2 You can discover supported NETGEAR access points on the LAN that can be managed by the wireless management system. See Appendix A, Access Point Firmware Compatibility for a list of compatible access points. The wireless management system supports Auto Discovery and IP Discovery. • Auto Discovery: Use this feature if the wireless management system and all access points on the LAN are in the same IP subnet. This is a Layer 2 discovery method. • IP Discovery: If the wireless management system and access points use different IP subnets, you can use IP discovery to find the access points for each subnet (one subnet at a time). This is a Layer 3 discovery method. Note: For discovery to work, each access point has to have an IP address. If more than one access point has the same default IP address, then only one of them is discovered with the model number at a time. You have to add the access point to the managed list, change its IP address, and then run discovery again to discover the next access point with the default IP. This chapter covers the following topics: • Auto Discovery • IP Discovery • Discovery Results • Adding Access Points 13

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2.
Access Point Discovery
You can discover supported NETGEAR access points on the LAN that can be managed by the
wireless management system. See
Appendix A, Access Point Firmware Compatibility
for a list of
compatible access points. The wireless management system supports Auto Discovery and IP
Discovery.
•
Auto Discovery
: Use this feature if the wireless management system and all access
points on the LAN are in the same IP subnet. This is a Layer 2 discovery method.
•
IP Discovery
: If the wireless management system and access points use different IP
subnets, you can use IP discovery to find the access points for each subnet (one subnet
at a time). This is a Layer 3 discovery method.
Note:
For discovery to work, each access point has to have an IP
address. If more than one access point has the same default IP
address, then only one of them is discovered with the model number
at a time. You have to add the access point to the managed list,
change its IP address, and then run discovery again to discover the
next access point with the default IP.
This chapter covers the following topics:
•
Auto Discovery
•
IP Discovery
•
Discovery Results
•
Adding Access Points