Cisco WAP121 Administration Manual

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE and WAP321 Wireless-N Selectable-Band Access Point with PoE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE ...

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 1 Contents Chapter 1: Getting Started 7 Starting the Web-Based Configuration Utility 7 Launching the Web-Based Configuration Utility 8 Logging Out 9 Using the Access Point Setup...

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 2 Contents Log Settings 33 Configuring the Persistent Log 33 Remote Log Server 34 Email Alert 35 Email Alert Examples 37 HTTP/HTTPS Service 38 Configuring HTTP and HTTPS Services...

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 3 Contents Chapter 5: Wireless 62 Radio 62 Rogue AP Detection 69 Viewing the Rogue AP List 70 Creating and Saving a Trusted AP List 72 Importing a Trusted AP List 72 Networks 73 ...

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 4 Contents WPS Roles 101 Enabling and Disabling WPS on a VAP 101 External and Internal Registration 102 Client Enrollment 102 Optional Use of Built-In Registrar 103 Lockdown Capa...

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 5 Contents Client QoS Association 130 Client QoS Status 132 Chapter 8: Simple Network Management Protocol 134 SNMP Overview 134 General SNMP Settings 135 Views 137 Groups 138 Use...

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Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 6 Contents Viewing Single Point Setup Information 164 Adding a New Access Point to a Single Point Setup Cluster 164 Removing an Access Point from a Single Point Setup Cluster 165...

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1 Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 7 Getting Started This chapter provides an introduction to the Wireless Access Point (WAP) devices web-based configuration utility, and includes these topics: • Starting the...

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Getting Started Starting the Web-Based Configuration Utility Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 8 1 address>) to the local intranet zone. The IP address can also be specified as the subnet IP address, so that ...

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Getting Started Using the Access Point Setup Wizard Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 9 1 Logging Out By default, the configuration utility logs out after 10 minutes of inactivity. See HTTP/HTTPS Service for ins...

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Getting Started Using the Access Point Setup Wizard Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 10 1 STEP 6 Select your time zone, and then set the system time manually or set up the WAP device to get its time from an NT...

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Getting Started Using the Access Point Setup Wizard Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 11 1 STEP 18 Click Next. The Wizard displays the Enable Captive Portal - Secure Your Guest Network window. STEP 19 Choose a s...

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Getting Started Getting Started Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 12 1 Getting Started To simplify device configuration through quick navigation, the Getting Started page provides links for performing common tas...

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Getting Started Window Navigation Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 13 1 Window Navigation This section describes the features of the configuration utility. Configuration Utility Header The Configuration Utility ...

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Getting Started Window Navigation Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 14 1 Management Buttons The table below describes the commonly used buttons that appear on various pages in the system. Management Buttons Butt...

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2 Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 15 Status and Statistics This chapter describes how to display status and statistics and contains these topics: • System Summary • Network Interfaces • Traffic Statistic...

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Status and Statistics System Summary Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 16 2 • Serial Number—The serial number of the Cisco WAP device. • Base MAC Address—The WAP MAC address. • Firmware Version—The fi...

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Status and Statistics Network Interfaces Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 17 2 - Established—A connection session is established between the WAP device and a server or client, depending on the role of each de...

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Status and Statistics Traffic Statistics Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 18 2 Traffic Statistics Use the Traffic Statistics page to view basic information about the WAP. It also provides a real-time display of...

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Status and Statistics Associated Clients Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 19 2 Each network interface that is configured as a WorkGroup Bridge interface shows these fields: • Network Interface—Name of the E...

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Status and Statistics Associated Clients Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 20 2 • Status—The Authenticated and Associated Status shows the underlying IEEE 802.11 authentication and association status, which ...

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Status and Statistics TSPEC Client Associations Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 21 2 TSPEC Client Associations The TSPEC Client Associations page provides real-time information about the TSPEC client data tran...

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Status and Statistics TSPEC Client Associations Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 22 2 The value may differ depending on other priority traffic sessions. • Medium Time—Time that the TS traffic occupies the tr...

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Status and Statistics TSPEC Status and Statistics Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 23 2 TSPEC Status and Statistics The TSPEC Status and Statistics page provides this information: • Summary information about T...

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Status and Statistics TSPEC AP Statistics Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 24 2 • Access Category—The Access Category associated with this Traffic Stream (voice or video). • Total Packets—Total number o...

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Status and Statistics Radio Statistics Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 25 2 Radio Statistics You can use the Radio Statistics page to show packet-level and byte-level statistics for the wireless radio interfac...

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Status and Statistics Email Alert Status Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 26 2 • FCS Error Count—Count of FCS errors detected in a received MPDU frame. • Transmit Retry Count—Number of times an MSDU is ...

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Status and Statistics Log Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 27 2 Log The Log page shows a list of system events that generated a log entry, such as login attempts and configuration changes. The log is cleared up...

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3 Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 28 Administration This chapter describes how to configure global system settings and perform diagnostics. It contains these topics: • System Settings • User Accounts • T...

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Administration System Settings Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 29 3 System Settings The System Settings page enables you to configure information that identifies the WAP device within the network. To configure...

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Administration User Accounts Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 30 3 Adding a User To add a new user: STEP 1 Select Administration > User Accounts in the navigation pane. The User Account Table shows the curren...

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Administration Time Settings Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 31 3 STEP 1 Select Administration > User Accounts in the navigation pane. The User Account Table shows the currently configured users. The user ci...

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Administration Time Settings Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 32 3 STEP 1 For the System Clock Source field, select Network Time Protocol (NTP). STEP 2 Configure these parameters: • NTP Server/IPv4/IPv6 Addre...

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Administration Log Settings Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 33 3 • Daylight Savings End—Select the week, day, month, and time when daylight savings time ends. • Daylight Savings Offset—Specify the numb...

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Administration Log Settings Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 34 3 • Severity—The minimum severity that an event must have for it to be written to the log in nonvolatile memory. For example, if you specify 2...

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Administration Email Alert Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 35 3 A hostname can consist of one or more labels, which are sets of up to 63 alphanumeric characters. If a hostname includes multiple labels, each is...

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Administration Email Alert Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 36 3 STEP 1 Select Administration > Email Alert in the navigation pane. STEP 2 In the Global Configuration area, configure these parameters: • Ad...

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Administration Email Alert Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 37 3 • Username—Enter the username for the email account that will be used to send these emails. Typically (but not always) the username is the fu...

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Administration HTTP/HTTPS Service Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 38 3 SMTP Port: 465 or 587 Username: Your email address, without the domain name such as myName (without @yahoo.com) Password: Your Yahoo acc...

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Administration HTTP/HTTPS Service Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 39 3 • Session Timeout—The maximum amount of time, in minutes, an inactive user remains logged on to the WAP device configuration utility. ...

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Administration Management Access Control Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 40 3 • Certificate File Present • Certificate Expiration Date • Certificate Issuer Common Name If an SSL certificate (with a .pem e...

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Administration Upgrade Firmware Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 41 3 ! CAUTION Verify any IP address that you enter. If you enter an IP address that does not match your Administrative computer, you will lose...

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Administration Upgrade Firmware Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 42 3 STEP 1 Select Administration > Update Firmware in the navigation pane. The Product ID (PID) and active and inactive firmware versions appe...

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Administration Firmware Recovery Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 43 3 Uploading the new software may take several minutes. Do not refresh the page or navigate to another page while uploading the new software, ...

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Administration Firmware Recovery Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 44 3 NOTE You can access the system across a network if the default gateway IP address is 192.168.1.1. STEP 3 Open a web browser and enter the...

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Administration Download/Backup Configuration File Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 45 3 Download/Backup Configuration File The WAP device configuration files are in XML format and contain all the information ab...

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Administration Download/Backup Configuration File Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 46 3 STEP 6 Select which configuration file you want to back up: • Startup Configuration—Configuration file type used when...

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Administration Configuration Files Properties Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 47 3 If the downloaded file overwrites the Startup Configuration file, and the file passes a validity check, then the downloaded co...

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Administration Reboot Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 48 3 STEP 1 Select Administration > Copy/Save Configuration in the navigation pane. STEP 2 Select the Source File Name: • Startup Configuration—Con...

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Administration Discovery—Bonjour Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 49 3 Discovery—Bonjour Bonjour enables the WAP device and its services to be discovered by using multicast DNS (mDNS). Bonjour advertises se...

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Administration Packet Capture Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 50 3 formatted in pcap format and can be examined using tools such as Wireshark and OmniPeek. • Remote capture method—Captured packets are redi...

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Administration Packet Capture Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 51 3 As soon as the capture is completed, the radio reverts to nonpromiscuous mode operation. • Radio Client Filter—Enables or disables the WLA...

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Administration Packet Capture Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 52 3 - brtrunk—Linux bridge interface in the WAP device. • Capture Duration—Enter the time duration in seconds for the capture. The range is ...

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Administration Packet Capture Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 53 3 A Microsoft Windows computer running the Wireshark tool allows you to display, log, and analyze captured traffic. The remote packet capture fa...

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Administration Packet Capture Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 54 3 STEP 7 Select the interface from which you need to capture packets. At the Wireshark popup window, next to the IP address, there is a pull-do...

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Administration Packet Capture Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 55 3 • All traffic to and from a specific client: wlan.addr == 00:00:e8:4e:5f:8e In remote capture mode, traffic is sent to the computer running W...

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Administration Support Information Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 56 3 STEP 1 Select Use TFTP to download the capture file. STEP 2 Enter the TFTP Server Filename to download if different from the default. By...

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4 Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 57 LAN This chapter describes how to configure the port, network, and clock settings of the WAP devices. It includes these topics: • Port Settings • VLAN and IPv4 Address ...

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LAN VLAN and IPv4 Address Settings Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 58 4 STEP 4 Enable or disable Green Ethernet Mode (WAP321 only). • Green Ethernet Mode is an auto-power-down mode that reduces chip power ...

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LAN IPv6 Addresses Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 59 4 • Management VLAN ID—The VLAN associated with the IP address you use to access the WAP device. Provide a number between 1 and 4094 for the Managemen...

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LAN IPv6 Addresses Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 60 4 To configure IPv6 address settings: STEP 1 Select LAN > IPv6 Addresses in the navigation area. STEP 2 Configure the following settings: • IPv6 Conne...

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LAN IPv6 Addresses Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 61 4 • IPv6 Link Local Address—The IPv6 address used by the local physical link. The link local address is not configurable and is assigned by using the I...

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5 Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 62 Wireless This chapter describes how to configure properties of the wireless radio operation. It includes these topics: • Radio • Rogue AP Detection • Networks • Sch...

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Wireless Radio Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 63 5 STEP 1 Select Wireless > Radio in the navigation pane. STEP 2 In the Global Settings area, configure the TSPEC Violation Interval, which is the time inte...

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Wireless Radio Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 64 5 • Primary Channel (802.11n modes with 20/40 MHz bandwidth only)—A 40 MHz channel can be considered to consist of two 20 MHz channels that are contiguous...

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Wireless Radio Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 65 5 - No—The WAP device transmits data using an 800-nanosecond guard interval. • Protection—The protection feature contains rules to guarantee that 802.11 ...

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Wireless Radio Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 66 5 If the packet being transmitted is equal to or less than the threshold, fragmentation is not used. Setting the threshold to the largest value (2,346 bytes, ...

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Wireless Radio Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 67 5 Some channel ranges and country code combinations have relatively low maximum transmit power. When attempting to set the transmit power to the lower ranges ...

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Wireless Radio Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 68 5 By default, the Multicast/Broadcast Rate Limiting option is disabled. Until you enable Multicast/Broadcast Rate Limiting, these fields are disabled: - Rate L...

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Wireless Rogue AP Detection Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 69 5 - On — A station is required to send a TSPEC request for bandwidth to the WAP device before sending or receiving a video traffic stream. The W...

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Wireless Rogue AP Detection Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 70 5 The WAP device performs an RF scan on all channels to detect all APs in the vicinity of the network. If rogue APs are detected, they are shown o...

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Wireless Rogue AP Detection Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 71 5 - Ad hoc indicates a rogue station running in Ad hoc mode. Stations set to Ad hoc mode communicate with each other directly, without the use of ...

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Wireless Rogue AP Detection Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 72 5 • Beacons—The total number of beacons received from the rogue AP since it was first discovered. • Last Beacon—The date and time of the l...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 73 5 The file that you import must be a plain-text file with a .txt or .cfg extension. Entries in the file are MAC addresses in hexadecimal format with each oc...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 74 5 ?, ", $, [, \, ], and +. The allowable characters are: ASCII 0x20, 0x21, 0x23, 0x25 through 0x2A, 0x2C through 0x3E, 0x40 through 0x5A, 0x5E throug...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 75 5 ! CAUTION Be sure to enter a VLAN ID that is properly configured on the network. Network problems can result if the VAP associates wireless clients with...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 76 5 - Dynamic WEP - WPA Personal - WPA Enterprise If you select a security mode other than None, additional fields appear. These fields are explained in Confi...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 77 5 NOTE To delete a VAP, select the VAP and click Delete. To save your deletion permanently, click Save when complete. Configuring Security Settings These s...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 78 5 - ASCII - Hex • WEP Keys—You can specify up to four WEP keys. In each text box, enter a string of characters for each key. The keys you enter depend o...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 79 5 - Both Open System and Shared Key. When you select both authentication algorithms, client stations configured to use WEP in shared key mode must have a v...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 80 5 This mode requires the use of an external RADIUS server to authenticate users. The WAP device requires a RADIUS server that supports EAP, such as the Mic...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 81 5 • Key—The shared secret key that the WAP device uses to authenticate to the primary RADIUS server. You can use up to 63 standard alphanumeric and spec...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 82 5 - WPA—The network has client stations that support the original WPA and none that support the newer WPA2. - WPA2—All client stations on the network su...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 83 5 WPA Enterprise WPA Enterprise with RADIUS is an implementation of the Wi-Fi Alliance IEEE 802.11i standard, which includes CCMP (AES), and TKIP encryption...

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Wireless Networks Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 84 5 By default both TKIP and CCMP are selected. When both TKIP and CCMP are selected, client stations configured to use WPA with RADIUS must have one of thes...

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Wireless Scheduler Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 85 5 • Enable RADIUS Accounting—Tracks and measures the resources a particular user has consumed such as system time, amount of data transmitted and rece...

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Wireless Scheduler Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 86 5 STEP 1 Select Wireless > Scheduler in the navigation pane. STEP 2 Ensure that the Administrative Mode is enabled. By default it is disabled. The Sched...

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Wireless Scheduler Association Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 87 5 STEP 4 From the Day of the Week menu, select the recurring schedule for the rule. You can configure the rule to occur daily, each weekday, e...

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Wireless Bandwidth Utilization Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 88 5 Bandwidth Utilization Use the Bandwidth Utilization page to configure how much of the radio bandwidth can be used before the WAP device stops...

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Wireless MAC Filtering Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 89 5 Up to 512 MAC addresses can be added to the filter list. To configure MAC filtering: STEP 1 Select Wireless > MAC Filtering in the navigation pane....

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Wireless WDS Bridge Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 90 5 WDS Bridge The Wireless Distribution System (WDS) allows you to connect multiple WAP121 and WAP321 devices. With WDS, access points communicate with one...

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Wireless WDS Bridge Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 91 5 - Radio - IEEE 802.11 Mode - Channel Bandwidth - Channel (Auto is not recommended) NOTE When operating bridging in the 802.11n 2.4 GHz band, set the C...

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Wireless WDS Bridge Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 92 5 Personal mode, the WAP device uses WPA2-PSK with CCMP (AES) encryption over the WDS link. See WEP on WDS Links or WPA/PSK on WDS Links following this p...

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Wireless WorkGroup Bridge Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 93 5 • WDS ID—Enter an appropriate name for the new WDS link you have created. It is important that the same WDS ID is also entered at the other e...

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Wireless WorkGroup Bridge Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 94 5 In WorkGroup Bridge mode, the BSS managed by the WAP device while operating in WAP device mode is referred to as the access point interface, and a...

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Wireless WorkGroup Bridge Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 95 5 NOTE There is an arrow next to SSID for SSID Scanning; this feature is disabled by default, and is enabled only if AP Detection is enabled in Rogu...

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Wireless Quality of Service Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 96 5 - Disabled—The set of clients in the APs BSS that can access the upstream network is not restricted to the clients specified in a MAC address...

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Wireless Quality of Service Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 97 5 STEP 1 Select Wireless > QoS in the navigation pane. STEP 2 Select an option from the EDCA Template list: • WFA Defaults—Populates the WA...

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Wireless Quality of Service Cisco Small Business WAP121 and WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point with PoE 98 5 If the first random backoff wait time expires before the data frame is sent, a retry counter is incremented and the random backoff value (window...