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Bridge Child
—Enter the MAC address of the bridge child. The bridge child
must have the current access point configured as the bridge parent. The MAC
address can be in either
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
,
ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff
, or
ffffffffffff
format. Leave this field blank or enter
00-00-00-00-00-00
if
there are no bridge children to configure.
S
CANNING
FOR
WDS L
INKS
For easier configuration of the WDS bridge entry, you can use the RSSI Monitor to
locate nearby WDS bridges and their MAC addresses.
1
Click
Scan for WDS Links
to start the RSSI Monitor. When the RSSI Monitor
appears, a list of nearby WDS bridges is displayed.
2
Select the bridge entry you want to configure from the list on the left, and a
corresponding station from the list on the right.
3
Click
Copy to WDS Configuration
to copy the BSSID of the selected station to
the WDS configuration window.
4
Return to the WDS Settings page and click
Apply
to save the changes.
C
ONFIGURING
S
PANNING
T
REE
P
ROTOCOL
S
ETTINGS
Spanning Tree Protocol allows the access point to determine the most efficient
path to forward data. It also allows network administrators to set up redundancy
in the network while avoiding problems associated with network loops. This is
primarily useful in a WDS environment.
Configure all parameters within the value ranges displayed.
Bridge
—Select
Enable
to turn on the STP feature.
Dynamic Entry Age-time
(1-10000 sec.)—Enter a value, in seconds, to
determine the lifetime of a dynamically learned entry in the address table.
Bridge Priority
(1-65535)—Enter a value to determine the priority value of
the bridge, which is used for STP Root Bridge election. Lower values represent
higher priority. When there are two or more bridges with the same priority,
their MAC addresses are used to elect the Root Bridge.
Bridge Max Age
(6-40 sec.)—Enter a value to determine how long the access
point retains STP topology information.
Note
: Only nearby 3Com Access Points models 7250, 8250, 8500, 8700, or 8750
that are running firmware versions 3.0 or later appear in the station list.
Additionally, the nearby access point must be in Bridge or Root-Bridge mode.
