3e–525A–3 Wireless Access Point
Chapter 5: Wireless Bridge Confi guration
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You must complete the confi guration of your Bridge 1 by following
the general instructions in Chapter 3 of this guide to establish any other
required confi guration options such as General, WAN and LAN settings.
Confi gure the second of your two point-to-point bridges following the
instructions given for Bridge 1 above.
Point-to-Multipoint Bridge Confi guration
A point-to-multipoint confi guration allows you to set up three or
more 3e–525A–3 access points in bridging mode and accomplish bridging
between 3 or more locations wirelessly.
For the three bridges that are to be linked to communicate properly,
they have to be set up with compatible commands in their setup screens.
For instance, all bridges must have the same channel number. Span-
ning Tree Protocol will usually be set to Enable. If confi gured as in the
diagram following, Bridge 1 must contain all of the others' BSSIDs, while
Bridge 2 ~ n must only contain Bridge 1's BSSID. (The BSSID of each is
equivalent to the MAC address found on the
Wireless Bridge — Radio
page. Enter only hexadecimal numbers. Data entry is not case sensitive.)
Finally, the wireless bridging encryption of each must be set to the appro-
priate type and key length and must be the same on all.
Because the 3e–525A–3 has two separate WLAN cards, one for the
AP and one for the Bridge, each bridge can have a WLAN on the 802.11a
protocol with no loss of effi ciency in bridging if you wish.
The following diagram pictures a point-to-multipoint setup, which
might be of use where a company's network spans several buildings
within a campus-like setting.
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Follow the steps of the procedure outlined in the point-to-point bridge
section. The chart following describes the basic attributes.
