Symbol Technologies WS 2000 manual Configuring the POS Wlan

Retail Use Cases

Clarisa clicks the Apply button to confirm her choices.

Clarisa clicks the “+” to the left of the Printer WLAN menu item and selects the Printer Security item. In the screen that displays, Clarisa selects no authentication. She enters the MAC numbers of the wireless printers in the Mobile Access Control section. The MAC numbers are unique numbers assigned to every network-cable hardware device and are usually listed on the same label that shows the device’s model number and serial number. She enters each by clicking on the Add button and entering the MAC address in the Start MAC column of the new row.

Configuring the POS WLAN

For the POS WLAN, she makes the following choices:

Name	POS
ESSID	CCC-POS
Subnet	POSsn
Disallow MU to MU Communication	No
Use Voice Prioritization	Yes
Answer Broadcast ESS	No

None of the current handheld terminals have voice capability, but the handhelds come in a model that has a walkie-talkie voice functionality. Clarisa believes that management might want to try those models soon. She elects to allow voice calls to get priority and, because the handhelds would be calling each other, she allows mobile unit (MU) to mobile unit communications. Allowing Answer Broadcast ESS is a way to allow mobile units that are not configured with the network ESSID to associate with the WLAN. She knows that

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WS 2000 Wireless Switch: 1.0 Date of last Revision: March 2004