WAB–2000 Wireless Access Point
Chapter 4: Wireless Bridge Configuration
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Chapter 4: Wireless Bridge Configuration
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Wireless Bridge — General
The
Wireless Bridge — General
screen contains wireless bridging
information including the channel number, Tx rate, Tx power, spanning
tree protocol (802.1d) enable/disable, and remote AP's BSSID. This page
is important in setting up your bridge configuration. Wireless bridging
supports two modes of operation:
• Manual wireless bridging
• Auto-forming wireless bridging (AWB) - with a maximum num-
ber of allowable bridges (the default is 40)
Auto-forming Wireless Bridging
When the wireless bridge is in auto-forming mode, the wireless
bridge sniffs for beacons from other wireless bridges and identifies APs
that match a policy such as SSID and channel.
Instead of simply adding the APs with the same SSID/channel to the
network, a three-way association handshake is performed in order to
control network access.
To make a unit the root (leaf) STP node, set the bridge priority lower
than any other node in the network.
