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Requirements for roaming – ZyXEL Communications Internet Security Appliance ZyWALL5UTM 4.0 User Manual

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Appendix H Wireless LANs

Requirements for Roaming

The following requirements must be met in order for wireless stations to roam between the
coverage areas.

1 All the access points must be on the same subnet and configured with the same ESSID.

2 If IEEE 802.1x user authentication is enabled and to be done locally on the access point,

the new access point must have the user profile for the wireless station.

3 The adjacent access points should use different radio channels when their coverage areas

overlap.

4 All access points must use the same port number to relay roaming information.

5 The access points must be connected to the Ethernet and be able to get IP addresses from

a DHCP server if using dynamic IP address assignment.