Symbol Technologies WS 2000 - Manual (Page 105)

Retail Use Cases
Clarisa clicks the Apply button to save her choices.
Configuring the WLANs
Configuring the Cafe WLAN
Clarisa clicks the “+” to the left of the Wireless menu item in the left menu. She selects the
third WLAN. This is the WLAN that she plans to use for the cafe WLAN.
The WLAN name is used with in the WS 2000 configuration screens to make the interface
easier to navigate. She names this WLAN from “WLAN3” to “Cafe”. She also gives it an
ESSID of “CCC-Cafe”. The ESSID is broadcast to the users and will be what the cafe users
see when they select a wireless network on their laptops. Finally, she uses the Subnet pull-
down menu to make this WLAN part of the third subnet, the “Cafesn” subnet.
For Disallow MU to MU communications, she leaves the option unchecked. She is
certain that some cafe users will want to communicate between themselves, so she does not
choose the Disallow.
She leaves the Voice Prioritization option checked. It is unlikely that many customers
will want to use Voice over IP products in the near future, but there seems to be no reason
for her to disallow such use.
She also leaves on Answer Broadcast ESS for this WLAN. Some mobile units come
with a default ESSID of “101”. This option allows the WLAN to respond to these mobile
units even if the WLAN is set up with a different ESSID. Since the cafe is a public access
WLAN, leaving this option on will make it easier for the cafe customer to associate with the
WLAN. For the private WLANs on this switch, she will turn this option off.
The options for Multicast Addresses are designed for compatibility with some VoIP
phones. Clarisa thinks it unlikely that any will show up in the cafe so she leaves these blank.
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WS 2000 Wireless Switch: 1.0 Date of last Revision: March 2004