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Allied Telesis AT-WA7501 User Manual

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Chapter 8: Managing, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading Access Points

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you cannot ping the access point, you cannot establish a telnet session to
the access point, and the LEDs display this pattern.

LED On

LED Off


LED Flashing

You can recover a failed access point using a Windows NT4/2000/XP PC.
The procedure is explained in the next subsection.

Using a Windows NT4/2000/XP PC

You can use a Windows NT4/2000/XP PC and a command prompt to
recover a failed access point. To access a command prompt, see your
Windows documentation. For this procedure you will need to contact Allied
Telesyn Technical Support to obtain the AP824X.DNL file.

To recover a failed access point

1. From a command prompt, type this command to create a static ARP

cache entry for the netloader.

arp –s

x.x.x.x yy-yy-yy-yy-yy-yy

where:

x.x.x.x

is the IP address that you want to assign the
access point

yy-yy-yy-yy-yy-yy

is the MAC address of the access point. This
MAC address is printed on a label that is on the
bottom of the access point.

Table 16. LED Pattern of a Failed Access Point

Only Boot
ROM code
is available
on access
point. Load
new files.

(Wireless #1 and #2 blink
in unison.)

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