ZyXEL Communications Corporation WAC6553D-E Manuel D’Utilisation

NWA5000 / WAC6500 Series User’s Guide

This chapter describes how you can configure the management IP address and VLAN settings of 
your NWA/WAC.

The Internet Protocol (IP) address identifies a device on a network. Every networking device 
(including computers, servers, routers, printers, etc.) needs an IP address to communicate across 
the network. These networking devices are also known as hosts.

IP Setup

The figure above illustrates one possible setup of your NWA/WAC. The gateway IP address is 
192.168.1.1 and the managed IP address of the NWA/WAC is 192.168.1.2 (default), but if the 
NWA/WAC is assigned an IP address by a DHCP server, the default (192.168.1.2) will not be used. 
The gateway and the NWA/WAC must belong in the same IP subnet to be able to communicate with 
each other.

This discusses using the NWA/WAC in management mode, which determines whether the NWA/
WAC is used in its standalone mode, or as part of a Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access 
Points (CAPWAP) network. 

The NWA/WAC supports CAPWAP. This is ZyXEL’s implementation of the CAPWAP protocol (RFC 
5415). 

The CAPWAP dataflow is protected by Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS).

The following figure illustrates a CAPWAP wireless network. You (U) configure the AP controller (C), 
which then automatically updates the configurations of the managed APs (M1 ~ M4).