Bluesocket BlueSecure 1540, Installation Manual

Provisioning Your Bluesocket WLAN for BSAPs

BlueSecure™ Access Point 1540 Installation Guide

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DHCP Server Option 43

 - You can manually configure the DHCP server 

on your network to send BSC IP addresses to BSAPs using DHCP vendor-

specific option 43.
In DHCP requests sent from the BSAP, the BSAP uses option 60 Vendor class 

identifier with a value of 

BlueSecure.AP1500

 to identify itself to the DHCP 

server.
Refer to the documentation supplied with your DHCP server when configuring 

vendor-specific option 43 

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DNS Server Configuration

 - BSAPs are factory configured with 

apdiscovery

 as the DNS hostname. You can configure a DNS server on 

your network with an entry for apdiscovery with the home BSC Controller IP 

address as the resolution.
To configure this, add a NAME record to the DNS server for apdiscovery (at 

the domain server that the BAP will receive). Point this name to one or more 

BSC IP addresses (managed, protected or VLAN depending on the network 

configuration). 
So for example, if there are two BSCs (192.168.100.23 and 

192.168.100.28), and the domain is customer.com, add two NAME records 

to customer.com, for the name apdiscovery.customer.com. One should 

resolve to 192.168.100.23 and one to 192.168.100.28. PTR (i.e., pointer) 

records are not needed for this portion of discovery.

Figure 4: Deploying BSAPs Across a Routed Network

Network

DHCP

Server

Network

DNS

Server

BSAPs Receive their IP 

Addresses from

Network DHCP Server

BSAPs Receive Home BSC

IP Address Using DHCP 

Option 43 or DNS