Configuring the Wireless Distribution System
D-Link
Unified Wired and Wireless Access System
Oct. 2015
Page 647
D-Link UWS User Manual
When you click
Add
from the WDS Managed AP Summary page, the page refreshes and displays fields to
configure the WDS Managed AP settings.
Figure 405: WDS Managed AP Settings
The following table shows the fields available to configure the WDS Managed APs that are members of the
group selected on the previous page.
Note:
If no APs have been added to the selected WDS group, only the
Add
and
Refresh
buttons
display.
Note:
After you change WDS-Managed AP group settings, make sure you push the configuration to
other switches in the cluster.
Table 371: WDS Managed AP Configuration - Add AP
Field
Description
Valid AP MAC
Address
Lists the MAC address of each AP configured in the local Valid AP database. If the AP to
add is in the database, select its MAC address from the menu to populate the WDS AP
MAC Address field. The AP does not need to be in the Valid AP database to add it to the
WDS group.
Hardware Type
Select the hardware type for the AP. The hardware type is determined, in part, by the
number of radios the AP supports (single or dual) and the IEEE 802.11 modes that the
radio supports (a/b/g or a/b/g/n).
WDS AP MAC
Address
MAC Address of the AP to add to the WDS-managed group. If the AP is not in the Valid
AP database, clear the field (if necessary) and enter the MAC address of the AP to add.
Priority
Spanning Tree Priority for this AP. The priority is used only when spanning tree mode
is enabled.
The priority determines which AP is selected as the root of the spanning tree and which
AP has preference over another AP when multiple equal cost paths exist in the
topology. The lower value for the spanning tree priority means that the AP is more likely
to be used for bridging data into the campus network. You should assign a lower priority
to the APs connected to the wired network than to the satellite APs.
The priority value is rounded down to a multiple of 4096. The range is 0
– 61440, and
the default value is 36864.
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