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3e–527A3 Wireless Access Point – 8 Port Chapter 5: Wireless Bridge Conguration
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3e–527A3 Wireless Access Point – 8 Port Chapter 5: Wireless Bridge Conguration
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Next go to the Wireless Bridge — General screen. Select either
manual or auto bridging. If you choose Manual Bridging then you will
have to set Spanning Tree Protocol to Enable unless you are sure that
there is no chance of a loop. You can also assign a Signal Strength LED
MAC. Signal strength LED MAC allows you to set the number of one of
the Remote APs which will be listed at the bottom of the screen once the
system is operational as the guiding port that you wish to have display in
the WLANSS LED on the front of the 3e–527A3 as a signal. If you don’t
assign one, the LED will show the upper link signal strength (if there is
one). From this screen you can also choose to delete a remote AP's MAC
address.
Click Apply to accept your changes.
If you choose Auto Bridging mode, then you will need to enter the
follwoing information:
Enter the SSID. This can be any set of letters and numbers assigned
by the network administrator. This nomenclature has to be set on the
wireless bridge and each wireless device in order for them to communi-
cate.
Enter a number from 1 to 40 for the Max Auto Bridges. Next enter the
Bridge Priority (range from 1-40). This determines the root STP node. The
lowest bridge priority in the network will become the STP root.
Select the Signal Strength Threshold.
Either enable or disable the Broadcast SSID. When disabled, the
bridge hides the SSID in outgoing beacon frames and stations cannot
obtain the SSID through passive scanning. Also, when it is disabled, the
bridge doesn’t send probe responses to probe requests with unspecied
SSIDs.
Finally enter the Signal Strength MAC. The signal strength of this