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Discover and Manage Access Points

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Access Point Discovery Guidelines

You must run the Discovery Wizard for the wireless controller to discover supported

NETGEAR access points on the LAN or WAN. The wireless controller can discover access

points that are still in their factory default state and access points that are already deployed in

a standalone configuration.

Both access points in the factory default state and deployed standalone access points run

standalone firmware. For information about the minimum required standalone firmware

versions, see Supported NETGEAR Access Points on page 18.

After the access points are discovered, you can add them to the Managed AP List, enabling

the wireless controller to automatically upgrade the standalone firmware of the access points

to managed-mode firmware.

ou can then use the wireless controller to configure, manage,

and monitor the managed access points.

General Discovery Guidelines

An access point must run at least its initial firmware release or a newer version. For firmware

requirements, see Supported NETGEAR Access Points on page 18. No other firmware

requirements exist for the access point to function with the wireless controller.

Access points in the factory default state that are in the same Layer 2 network and are

assigned the same IP address can still be discovered. Depending on the configuration of the

DHCP server, these access points are discovered in parallel or sequentially

DHCP option 43 (vendor-specific information) must be enabled on an external DHCP server.

Specifying an internal DHCP server on the wireless controller automatically enables DHCP

option 43 with the IP address of the wireless controller.

Layer 3 Discovery Guidelines

The following are the requirements for autodiscovery of local access points across Layer 3

networks:

• Enable SNMP and SSH on all standalone access points. (This is the default setting for

access points.)

• Unblock UDP port number 7890 in the firewall.

• Assign each access point a unique IP address. (This requirement does not apply to Layer

2 discovery

.) If two or more access points are assigned the same IP address, only one of

them is discovered at a time.

You must add the access point to the managed list, change

its IP address, and run discovery again to discover the next access point with that IP

address.

• Enable DHCP option 43 (vendor-specific information) on an external DHCP server

Specifying an internal DHCP server on the wireless controller automatically enables

DHCP option 43 with the IP address of the wireless controller.

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