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Setting the Ethernet (Wired) Interface

Navigating to Ethernet

To set the wired address for an access point, navigate to the

Advanced > Ethernet

tab,

and update the fields as described in the following pages.

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Setting the DNS Name

Field Description

DNS Name

Enter the DNS name for the access point in the text box.

This is the host name. It may be provided by your ISP or network

administrator, or you can provide your own.

The rules for system names are:

• This name can be up to 20 characters long.

• Only letters, numbers and dashes are allowed.

• The name must start with a letter and end with either a letter or

a number.

Field

Description

Enabling or Disabling Guest Access

You can provide controlled guest access over an isolated network and a secure

internal

LAN

on the same D-Link DWL-2210AP.

Configuring an Internal LAN and a Guest Network

A

Local Area Network

(

LAN

) is a communications network covering a limited area, for

example, one floor of a building. A LAN connects multiple computers and other network

devices like storage and printers.

Ethernet

is the most common technology implementing a LAN.

Wi-Fi

(

IEEE

) is another

very popular LAN technology.

The D-Link DWL-2210AP allows you to configure two different LANs on the same access

point: one for a secure

internal

LAN and another for a public

guest

network with no

security and little or no access to internal resources. To configure these networks, you

need to provide both Wireless and Ethernet (Wired) settings.

Information on how to configure the Ethernet (Wired) settings is provided in the sections

below.

(For information on how to configure the Wireless settings, see “Setting the Wireless

Interface” in this manual. For an overview of how to set up the Guest interface, see

“Setting up Guest Access” in this manual.)

Enabling or Disabling Guest Access

The D-Link DWL-2210AP ships with the Guest Access feature disabled by default. If you

want to provide guest access on your AP, enable Guest access on the Ethernet tab.

Setting the Ethernet (Wired) Interface

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Using VLANs for the Guest Network

If you enable Guest Access, two virtual LANs (

VLAN

s) will be used: one for the Internal

network and one for the Guest network. To use VLANs, the LAN port on the access

point must be connected to a tagged port on a

VLAN

capable switch and then you must

define two different Virtual LANs on this Administration page. (For more information,

see “Setting up Guest Access” in this manual.)

Enabling Guest Access will enable the “VLAN” settings where you must provide a VLAN

ID. See also “Configuring Guest Interface Ethernet Settings” in this manual.

Field Description

Guest Access

By default, the D-Link DWL-2210AP ships with Guest

Access disabled.

• To enable Guest Access, click

Enabled

.

• To disable Guest Access, click

Disabled

.

If you enable Guest access and configure the Guest and Internal

interfaces to use

VLAN

s, you may lose connectivity to the access point.

First, be sure to verify that the switch and

DHCP

server you are using

can support VLANs per the

IEEE 802.1Q

standard. After configuring

the VLAN on the Advanced > Ethernet page, physically reconnect

the Ethernet cable on the switch to the tagged packet (VLAN) port.

Then, reconnect via the Administration Web pages to the new IP address.

(If necessary, check with the infrastructure support administrator regarding

the VLAN and DHCP configurations.)

Field

Description

Setting the Ethernet (Wired) Interface

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Configuring Internal Interface Ethernet Settings

To configure Ethernet (Wired) settings for the Internal LAN, fill in the fields as described

below.

Field Description

MAC Address

Shows the

MAC

address for the Internal interface for the Ethernet port

on this access point. This is a read-only field that you cannot change.

VLAN ID

If you configure enable Guest access and configure Internal and Guest

networks on “VLANs”, this field will be enabled.

Provide a number between 1 and 4094 for the Internal VLAN.

This will cause the access point to send DHCP requests with the

VLAN tag. The switch and the DHCP server must support

VLAN

IEEE

802.1Q

frames. The access point must be able to reach the DHCP

server.

Check with the Administrator regarding the VLAN and DHCP

configurations.

Connection Type

You can select “DHCP Client” or “Static IP”.

The

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

(

DHCP

) is a protocol

specifying how a centralized server can provide network

configuration information to devices on the network. A DHCP server

“offers” a “lease” to the client system. The information supplied includes

the IP addresses and netmask plus the address of its DNS servers

and gateway.

Static IP indicates that all network settings are provided manually. You

must provide the IP address for the D-Link DWL-2210AP, its subnet

mask, the IP address of the default gateway, and the IP address of at

least one DNS nameserver. If you select “DHCP Client”, the D-Link

DWL-2210AP will acquire its IP Address, subnet mask, and DNS and

gateway information from the DHCP Servers. Otherwise, if you select

“Static IP”, fill in the items described in

“Static IP Settings.”

Caution:

If you do not have a

DHCP

server on the Internal network and

do not plan to use one, the first thing you must do after bringing up the

AP is change the Connection Type from DHCP to Static IP. When you

change the Connection Type to Static IP, you can either assign a new

Static IP Address

to the AP or continue using the default address. We

recommend assigning a new address so that if later you bring up

another D-Link DWL-2210AP on the same network, the IP addresses

for the two APs will be unique.

If you need to recover the default Static IP address, you can do so by

resetting the AP to the factory defaults as described in “Resetting the

Configuration” in this manual.

Field

Description

Setting the Ethernet (Wired) Interface

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Configuring Guest Interface Ethernet Settings

To configure Ethernet settings for the “Guest” interface, fill in the fields as described

below.

Field Description

MAC Address

VLAN ID

Field

Description

Subnet Mask

Enter the

Subnet Mask

in the text boxes. You must obtain this

information from your ISP or network administrator.

Default Gateway

Enter the

Default Gateway

in the text boxes.

Static IP Address

If you chose “Static IP” as the Connection Type, these fields will be

enabled.

Enter the Static IP Address in the text boxes.

Updating Settings

To apply your changes, click

Update

.

DNS Nameservers

Field

Description

The

Domain Name Service

(

DNS

) is a system that resolves the

descriptive name (

domain name

) of a network resource (for

example, www.dlink.com) to its numeric IP address (for

example, 66.93.138.219). A DNS server is called a

Nameserver

.

There are usually two Nameservers; a Primary Nameserver and

a Secondary Nameserver.

You can choose

Dynamic

or

Manual

mode.

• If you choose

Manual

, you should assign static IP addresses

manually.

• If you choose

Dynamic

, the IP addresses for the DNS servers

will be assigned automatically via DHCP. (This option is only

available if you specified DHCP for the Connection Type.)

Field Description

Shows the

MAC

address for the Guest interface for the Ethernet

port on this access point. This is a read-only field that you

cannot change.

If you enable Guest access and configure Internal and Guest

networks by “VLANs”, this field will be enabled.

Provide a number between 1 and 4094 for the Guest VLAN.

Setting the Ethernet (Wired) Interface