AT-WA7500 and AT-WA7501 Installation and User’s Guide

Table 71. General Troubleshooting (Continued)

 

 

 

Problem/Question

 

Possible Solution/Answer

 

 

 

 

 

 

The end device cannot

ˆ

From the Maintenance menu, choose

connect to the network.

 

AP Connections and verify that the

 

 

MAC address of your end device

 

 

appears on your PC screen. If it does

 

 

not appear, your end device is not

 

 

communicating with the access point.

 

 

Check your radio configuration

 

 

settings.

 

ˆ

Verify that the access point is not

 

 

filtering out the type of traffic you are

 

 

trying to pass through it.

 

 

The end device cannot

Verify that the end device and the access

synch to the access point.

point have the same SSID (network

 

name) and security.

 

 

The end devices are

The switches in your network may not

unable to roam from one

support backward learning. Use data link

access point to another.

tunneling to force all wireless traffic

 

through a fixed point so that roaming is

 

transparent to the bridges or switches.

 

The end devices must have IP addresses

 

from the root IP subnet.

 

For help, see “About Ethernet Bridging/

 

Data Link Tunneling” on page 134.

 

 

The end devices are

Set the Unicast Flood Mode to

unable to roam between a

Hierarchical. For help, see “Configuring

MobileLAN access product

Global Flooding” on page 162.

and 011X devices.

 

 

 

 

 

You cannot originate an IP

1.

Verify that the IP Router (Gateway)

tunnel to an access point

 

address is correct.

on a remote IP subnet.

2.

Verify that the access points on the

 

 

 

ends of the tunnel have the same LAN

 

 

ID.

 

3.

On the root access point verify that the

 

 

IP address of the access point at the

 

 

endpoint of the IP tunnel appears in

 

 

the IP Addresses list.

 

 

 

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