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Chapter 5: Wireless Bridge Confi guration
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Setting Up Bridging Type
Point-to-Point Bridge Confi guration
A point-to-point link is a direct connection between two, and only
two, locations or nodes. Because the bridge function uses a separate
WLAN card for bridging, you can also set up WLANs on the separate AP
WLAN card.
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For the two bridges that are to be linked to communicate properly,
they must be set up with compatible commands in the setup screens.
For instance, the bridges must have the same channel number. Be-
cause there is a separate WLAN card for bridging, there can be a separate
WLAN on the AP WLAN card with no loss effi ciency, as long as you set
the channel numbers so there's no confl ict or noise with the channel as-
signed to the bridge. Spanning Tree Protocol may be set to Enable, if there
is any possibility of a bridging loop, or to Disable (which is more effi cient)
if there's no possibility of a bridging loop. Each bridge must contain
the other's BSSID. (The BSSID of each is equivalent to the MAC address
contained on the
Wireless Bridge — Radio
setup page. Enter only hexa-
decimal numbers, no colons. Data entry is not case sensitive.) Finally, the
wireless bridging encryption must be set to the appropriate type and key
length and must be identical on each bridge.
The following charts show sample settings for manual bridging and
auto bridging modes.
