IP-COM AC3000 User manual

Table of Contents
PART 1 WEB LOGIN............................................................................................................................................ 2
1.1 LOGIN..................................................................................................................................................................... 2
1.2 LOGOUT .................................................................................................................................................................. 3
1.3 LAYOUT OF WEB UI................................................................................................................................................... 4
Fit AP Management...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Fat AP Management..................................................................................................................................................... 5
Tip................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.4 LOGIN ACCOUNT....................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.5 ELEMENTS OF WEB UI ............................................................................................................................................... 7
1.6 NOTE...................................................................................................................................................................... 7
PART 2 SWITCH FAT AP TO FIT AP.............................................................................................................. 8
2.1 NETWORK TOPOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................ 8
2.2 CONFIGURATION STEP................................................................................................................................................ 8
Step 1: Authorize Your AC ............................................................................................................................................. 9
Step 2: Upload Fit AP’s Firmware to AC ........................................................................................................................ 9
Step 3: Switch Fat AP Mode to Fit AP Mode ............................................................................................................... 10
2.3 VERIFY THE CONFIGURATION ..................................................................................................................................... 10
PART 3 DISCOVER AC IN DIFFERENT NETWORK .............................................................................. 11
3.1 DISCOVER AC IN LOCAL NETWORK ............................................................................................................................. 11
3.2 DISCOVER CROSS-NETWORK AC................................................................................................................................. 11
Networking Requirement ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Network Topology....................................................................................................................................................... 12
Configuration Guide ................................................................................................................................................... 12
Configuration Step...................................................................................................................................................... 12
Verify the Configuration ............................................................................................................................................. 14
3.3 DISCOVER CROSS-INTERNET AC ................................................................................................................................. 15
Networking Requirement ........................................................................................................................................... 15
Network Topology....................................................................................................................................................... 16

Configuration Guide ................................................................................................................................................... 16
Configuration Step...................................................................................................................................................... 16
Verify the Configuration ............................................................................................................................................. 18
PART 4 APPLICATION OF AP FORWARDING MODE........................................................................ 20
4.1 OVERVIEW............................................................................................................................................................. 20
Centralized Forwarding Mode .................................................................................................................................... 21
Distributed Forwarding Mode .................................................................................................................................... 22
Application Example ................................................................................................................................................... 22
4.2 CONFIGURATION GUIDE ........................................................................................................................................... 23
Centralized Forwarding Mode .................................................................................................................................... 23
Distributed Forwarding Mode .................................................................................................................................... 24
4.3 APPLICATION EXAMPLE............................................................................................................................................. 24
Centralized Forwarding Mode Application ................................................................................................................. 24
Distributed Forwarding Mode Application ................................................................................................................. 30
Mixed Forwarding Mode Application 1 ...................................................................................................................... 35
Mixed Forwarding Mode Application 2 ...................................................................................................................... 44
PART 5 APPLICATION OF NETWORK SETTINGS................................................................................ 58
Networking Requirement ........................................................................................................................................... 58
Network Topology....................................................................................................................................................... 59
Assumption................................................................................................................................................................. 59
Configuration Step...................................................................................................................................................... 60
Verify the Configuration ............................................................................................................................................. 65
In Sum: All settings on Each Device ............................................................................................................................ 65
PART 6 APPLICATION OF ADVERTISING ............................................................................................... 67
6.1 APPLICATION OF NO PASSWORD AUTHORIZATION.......................................................................................................... 67
6.2 APPLICATION OF PORTAL AUTHORIZATION.................................................................................................................... 73
6.3 APPLICATION OF FACEBOOK AUTHORIZATION................................................................................................................ 80

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Configuration Guide Overview
AC3000 provides abundant functions and flexible configurations. This Configuration Guide tries to help you
configure the AC by several applications. Also you have many other choices for your particular use case.
The configuration guide consists of the following parts.
Part
Description
Part 1
Web Login
This part describes how to login and logout AC’s Web UI, and introduces the Web UI’s
other information.
Part 2
Switch Fat AP to Fit AP
This part is required.
Part 3
Discover AC in Different
Network
This part is required if you need to manage cross-network or cross-Internet fit APs.
Part 4
Application of AP
Forwarding Mode
This part introduces AP forwarding mode and provides four applications to help you
configure AC and other devices.
Centralized Forwarding Mode Application: If you need to centrally manage all
wireless guests, follow this application.
Distributed Forwarding Mode Application: If you want to save your network
bandwidth, follow this application.
Mixed Forwarding Mode Application 1: If your network has two types of users with
different access rights, follow this application.
Mixed Forwarding Mode Application 2: If your network has three types of users with
different access rights and one has rights to access any provided service, follow this
application.
Part 5
Application of Network
Settings
This part provides an example to help you configure VLAN-based network settings.
Part 6
Application of
Advertising
This part shows how to create and deliver advertisements to terminals.

Web Login
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Part 1 Web Login
1.1 Login
AC3000 provides Web UI to help you manage and maintain this device. When you use AC3000 for the first time,
you can log in to the AC’s Web UI via a browser with default login information.
The default login information includes:
Login Information
Default Value
IP Address
192.168.10.1
Username
admin
Password
admin
To log in to the Web UI: (Assuming that the AC’s login information is the default value)
1. Connect a management PC to the AC with an Ethernet cable.
2. Set up IP address of the PC to “192.168.10.X” (X is between 2~254), with a subnet mask of “255.255.255.0”.
3. Launch a browser, enter https://192.168.10.1 in the address bar and press Enter or Return.
If the following page appears, click ADVANCED > Proceed to 192.168.10.1 (unsafe).
4. Enter the login username admin and password admin and click Login.

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Then you can manage the AC through the Web UI.
Tip
For better compatibility, it is recommended to use the following browsers:
Google Chrome 26.0 or higher version
Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher version
Mozilla Firefox 20.0 or higher version
In this configuration guide, we take Google Chrome as an example.
After logging in to the Web UI, you can modify the login IP address or create new users.
1.2 Logout
Close the browser window directly or click “Logout” on the top right corner to safely exit from the Web UI.

Web Login
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1.3 Layout of Web UI
AC3000 provides two Web UIs to manage fit AP and fat AP at the same time. To distinguish the two Web UIs, we
might call them first Web UI and second Web UI respectively in some circumstances.
The layouts of the two Web UIs are described below.
Fit AP Management
After logging in to AC3000, you will come to the first Web UI for fit AP management, shown as follows.
This Web UI is divided into four parts: primary navigation bar, secondary navigation bar, configuration area, and
auxiliary area, described as follows.
Number
Name
Description
Primary navigation
bar
The navigation bar organizes the AC’s menu of all functions in the form of a
navigation tree. You can choose the function menu from the navigation bar
with selection result shown in the configuration area.
Secondary
navigation bar
Configuration area
The area is used to configure and view settings.
Auxiliary area
Auxiliary area in the top right corner displays the current login account,
and provides “Logout” button.
Auxiliary area in the bottom of the page displays our website link and
copyright.

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Fat AP Management
AC3000 also provides a Web UI for fat AP management. To get into this Web UI, go to System Tool > Old
Firmware AP of the first Web UI, and click Login to Web UI.
Then you will come to the second Web UI for fat AP management.

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This Web UI is divided into three parts, shown as follows.
Number
Name
Description
Primary navigation
bar
The navigation bar organizes the AC’s menu of all functions in the form of a
navigation tree. You can choose the function menu from the navigation bar
with selection result shown in the configuration area.
Secondary
navigation bar
Configuration area
The area is used to configure and view settings.
Tip
If a parameter or button can’t be modified, consider the following reasons:
You have no permission to modify it. Please use a higher level account and retry.
It can’t be modified because you configure some incompatible parameters.
This release version of AC3000 does not support it and it may be developed in the next version.
1.4 Login Account
AC3000 provides three levels of login account: Super Administrator, Administrator and Guest. If a lower level
account can modify a setting, the higher level account also has the permission to modify it.
The permissions of the three accounts are described below.
Account
Permission
Super
Administrator
A super administrator can modify and view any settings on the Web UI.
Administrator
An administrator can view any settings on the Web UI but can only modify the following
settings:
Modify its own login password and allowed IP address in System Tool > Administrator.
Modify all settings of Monitoring, Policy Management, AP Management, Map &
Diagram and Captive Portal.
Modify all settings of Alarm Setting > Events Alarm.
Modify all settings of System Tool > Diagnosis Tool/ System Log/ Reboot/ Old Firmware
AP.
Guest
A guest can view any settings on the Web UI, but he can’t modify any setting except:
Refresh and export information.
Use diagnosis tool ping and traceroute to detect the network connection status.

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1.5 Elements of Web UI
The following table shows the commonly used buttons of the Web UI.
Button
Description
Click the button to create a policy or a rule.
Click the button to apply your settings.
Click the button to cancel or clear the settings you are editing.
Click the button to export the current page’s information to an appropriate directory. The
exported file is in the format Filename.csv.
Click the button to delete an unused policy or an offline AP’s information.
The following table shows the commonly used actions of the Web UI.
Action
Description
Used to modify the corresponding rule or policy.
Used to delete the corresponding rule or policy.
Used to refresh the information on the page.
Used to specify how many entries are displayed on each page.
Used to search for target information. Please select an item from the
dropdown menu and enter keywords in the box.
1.6 Note
If you have upgraded a firmware for the AC, please clear the browser cache to ensure that all functions of the
Web UI are displayed correctly.