Chapter 4 Basic Wireless Device Configuration

Starting a Wireless Configuration Session

Starting a Wireless Configuration Session

Note Before you configure the wireless settings in the router’s setup, you must follow these steps to open a session between the router and the access point.

Enter the following commands in global configuration mode on the router’s Cisco IOS CLI.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. interface wlan-ap0

2. ip address subnet mask

3. no shutdown

4. interface vlan1

5. ip address subnet mask

6. exit

7. exit

8. service-module wlan-ap 0 session DETAILED STEPSf

 

Command

Purpose

 

 

 

Step 1

interface wlan-ap0

Defines the router’s console interface to the wireless

 

 

device. The interface is used for communication

 

 

between the router’s console and the wireless device.

 

 

Always use port 0.

 

 

The following message appears:

 

 

The wlan-ap 0 interface is used for managing

 

Example:

the embedded AP. Please use the service-module

 

router(config)# interface wlan-ap0

wlan-ap 0 session command to console into the

 

embedded AP.

 

router(config-if)#

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2

ip address subnet mask

Specifies the interface IP address and subnet mask.

 

 

Note The IP address can be shared with the IP

 

Example:

address assigned to the Cisco Integrated

 

router(config-if)# ip address

Services Router by using the ip unnumbered

 

10.21.0.20 255.255.255.0

vlan1 command.

 

or

 

 

router(config-if)# ip unnumbered vlan1

 

 

 

 

Step 3

no shutdown

Specifies that the internal interface connection will

 

 

remain open.

 

Example:

 

 

router(config-if)# no shutdown

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems CISCO881SECK9 manual Starting a Wireless Configuration Session, Interface wlan-ap0

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