Nortel Networks NN43001-504 manual Dhcp server planning

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For example, if a data device does seize the medium, it can send a

1500-byte frame at the lowest data rate (if it is far away from the AP), and further delay voice frames. In addition, several data devices contending for the medium can each, in turn, send large frames before the voice device gained access to the medium.

Without a way to give preferential transmission opportunities to voice devices, supporting voice applications is a tremendous challenge on 802.11 WLANs. SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) has evolved into a de facto standard for Quality of Service (QoS) and serves as a model to illustrate the functions that a successful QoS mechanism can implement.

The 802.11e standard ultimately resolves QoS issues, but the delays in the standard create a number of additional implementation-specific challenges. Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) is a step toward full 802.11e compliance for voice and multimedia, but it is not a solution. Because it is a step, QoS feature evolution must progress towards better and more solid standards-based QoS capabilities.

WMM refines 802.11 to give statistical preference to certain classes over other classes. It is fully backward-compatible to legacy non-WMM devices, which function just like WMM best-effort class devices.

DHCP server planning

The handset IP-related parameters can be configured manually or through a DHCP server (RFC 1541 and RFC 1533). Any DHCP server can be used, but it must support the following capabilities.

•Provide Client IP address

•DHCP Option 1—Subnet Mask

•DHCP Option 3—Default Gateway

•DHCP Option 60—Class Identifier. The wireless handsets use the Class Identifier of Nortel-221x-A or Nortel-61xx-A. The DHCP server can use the string in the Class Identifier to uniquely identify a wireless handset.

•DHCP Option 66. This can be used to specify the address of the TFTP Server. If this option is not configured, the wireless handset looks at the Next server Boot server (siaddr) Option for the address of the TFTP Server* Vendor Specific Option 43, 128, 144, 157, 191, or 251. Only one of these options is required. The DHCP server encodes the Server 1 information using the same format as the IP Phone 2004. If the Server 2 information is also present in the option, it is ignored.

•DHCP Option 151. This option contains the IP address of the WLAN IP Telephony Manager 2245. If Option 151 is not configured, the wireless

Nortel Communication Server 1000

WLAN IP Telephony Installation and Commissioning

NN43001-504 01.02 Standard

Release 5.0 15 June 2007

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