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3e-528 Wireless Video Server Chapter 5: Bridge Conguration
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3e-528 Wireless Video Server Chapter 5: Bridge Conguration
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Point-to-Multipoint Bridge Conguration
A point-to-multipoint conguration allows you to set up three or
more 3e-528 access points in bridging mode and accomplish bridging
between three or more locations wirelessly.
For the 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 congured 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 Conguration
— Bridging page. Enter only hexadecimal numbers, no colons. Data entry
is not case sensitive.) Finally, the wireless bridging encryption of each
must be set to the appropriate type and key length and must be the same
on all.
Because the 3e-528 has two separate WLAN cards, one for the AP and
one for the Bridge, each bridge can have a WLAN on the 802.11b/g proto-
col with no loss of efciency in bridging if you wish.
The following diagram represents a point-to-multipoint setup, which
might be of use where a company's network spans several buildings
within a campus-like setting.
Follow the steps of the procedure outlined in the point-to-point bridge
section. The chart following describes the basic attributes.