Madge Smart Wireless Access Point 802.11b (95-10)
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Release Notes for Firmware 1.5.3.2825 - August 2003
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Introduction
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The Madge Smart Wireless family of products allow you to build
standards-based, enterprise-class, secure wireless LAN solutions.

Products in the family include:

* The Smart Wireless Access Point 802.11b (part number: 95-10)
* The Smart Wireless Advanced PCMCIA Adapter 802.11b (part number: 95-31)
* The Smart Wireless PCI Adapter 802.11b (Carrier only) (part number: 95-20)
* The Smart Wireless Enterprise Access Server (part number: 95-02)

Visit the Madge web-site (www.madge.com) for additional product
information. Also check for updated software, firmware and drivers at 
www.madge.com/software.

This document provides release notes for firmware build 1.5.3.2825 which
is to be used only in the Madge Smart Wireless Access Point 802.11b,
(part number 95-10).

The Access Point can be configured using either a Web Browser to access
its built-in web-management pages, or by using the Wireless Network Manager
(WNM) program on a PC. In addition, the Smart Wireless Enterprise Access 
Server (95-02) can automatically discover and manage Access Points in
accordance with pre-defined configuration and security policies.

The factory default configuration for an Access Point is defined in Section
5.1 of the Access Point User Guide on the CD-ROM supplied with the product.

The principle default settings are:

    IP Address:             192.168.0.1 (if automatic allocation via DHCP
                            does not succeed)
    Subnet mask:            255.255.255.0
    Username:               root
    Password:               root
    802.11b Security mode:  128-bit WEP
    SNMP read community:    public
    SNMP write community:   public

Note that you can press the "SF-Reset" button on the housing of a powered-on
Access Point to reset the configuration settings to the factory default
values.  If you power-cycle an Access Point (e.g. remove and replace the
DC power plug) it will be reset using the last configuration settings that
were saved.

If you are updating firmware in your Access Point, and that firmware is prior to release 1.5.x.x, configuration settings will be lost. Make a note of the
settings before upgrading. Once you have upgraded to this new release, future 
upgrades will preserve configurations.

This software is subject to Madge's Software License and Warranty that can
be found on the original CD release supplied with the product.

New features added since version 1.4.3.2737:
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1) The user can now generate WEP keys by entering a "pass phrase", in 
the same way that the Wireless LAN Utility can be used to do this for 
adapters. For the Access Point, this can be done using the Web 
management user interface (UI).

2) Configuration backup and restore is now possible via TFTP, and can be 
activated through the Web management UI.

3) Associated wireless clients are now shown on the web page "Status-
>Associated Clients", or can be viewed using future versions of 
Wireless Network Manager (e.g. release 1.4.9.38 or higher).

4) Access Point configurations are now preserved after performing a 
firmware upgrade.

5) The data rate ("Tx speed") setting can be configured by the Web 
management UI, SNMP, and by future versions of Wireless Network 
Manager.

6) The wireless advanced settings "fragment threshold", "RTS threshold", 
and "preamble type" can now be configured by the Web management 
UI and by future versions of Wireless Network Manager.

7) The Start page of the Web management UI highlights any changed  
settings in red for user convenience.

8) When using the Web management UI to configure the AP, clicking 
"Cancel" on a page cancels any changes made to settings on that page 
only, while clicking "Cancel" on the Start page cancels all changes 
made to settings.

9) The Enterprise MIB definition files now include better version 
information.

10) The RF transmit power can now be controlled via SNMP using the 
"iEwirelessTransmitPower" OID.

11) When a wireless client changes its IP address, the IP address field of 
the corresponding entry in the device status table will be updated (the 
"iEdeviceStatusTable" OID).

12) There is now a new MIB OID ("iEipObtainMethod") that can be used to  
change how the AP obtains an IP address between DHCP or a Static 
address.

Issues resolved since version 1.4.3.2737:
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1) If an associated wireless client doesn't send any packets to the AP for 
approximately 5 minutes, the AP will send a de-authentication packet 
to that client to check whether the client is alive or not. Occasionally, 
however, the de-authentication packet contained malformed "source 
MAC address" and "BSSID" information.

2) The AP firmware could become unstable when a string with a length of 
precisely 16 characters was written to "iEsysHostName" by SNMP.

3) Entries in the device status table did not time out and get automatically 
removed from the table if wireless clients had disassociated.

4) The entries in the "iEmacAddrAccCtrlTable" were not correctly sorted by 
MAC address. This meant that if the Access Point was being managed 
by a Smart Wireless Enterprise Access Server, and if the table had 
been loaded with MAC addresses, the size of the table could be 
misinterpreted leading to errors. The entries are now sorted in 
increasing order after the AP reboots.

5) The time stamp in every SNMP trap was always "0 days 00h:00m:00s 
00th." Now the "system up time" value is used for the time stamping of 
traps.

6) On the Web management UI, if a subnet mask option was not manually 
configured, it was forced to 255.255.255.0. It now keeps any 
previously entered value intact. 

New Issues and Observations:
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1) This new version of firmware is compatible with Wireless Network 
Manager 1.2.7.395, which was included in Smart Wireless Support 
Software Release 1.2. The new features listed above will not be 
available with WNM 1.2.7.395, but a new version of WNM will be 
published that provides an expanded user interface for those features.

2) This firmware is also compatible with Madge Smart Wireless Adapters 
(part number 95-31) running in conjunction with all published versions 
of the Wireless LAN Utility 802.1x client software.

3) Although the RF channel can be configured by SNMP to any channel in 
the range 1 to 14, when using the Web management UI or Wireless 
Network Manager, the user will not be able to set an illegal RF channel 
using these user tools.

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