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Bridge GUI Guide: Network Configuration
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Refer to the relevant step-by-step instructions in Section
3.3.5.11, Establishing an ES210 Bridge STA Interface
Connection, for preconfiguring the interface or creating it
through the ES210 Bridge’s scanning function.
3.3.5.1 Station Administrative State
Admin State simply determines whether the interface is Disabled
or
Enabled. A newly created STA Interface is Enabled by default.
3.3.5.2 Station Name and Description
In order to create a
STA Interface, you must specify a STA
Name
of up to 254 alphanumeric characters to identify the
interface in the ES210 Bridge configuration.
You can optionally provide a
Description of the interface of up to
100 characters, only in Advanced View.
3.3.5.3 Station SSID
When you
SCAN for wireless networks within range and choose
one to which to associate, the SSID of the network you select
will be automatically added as the
STA Interface SSID.
If you are manually creating a
STA Interface in advance of
connecting to a particular network, you
must specify the
network SSID for the ES210 Bridge to associate to.
3.3.5.4 Station BSSID
To disable roaming among multiple APs with the same SSID,
you can specify the MAC address of a single wireless AP to
which the ES210 Bridge
STA Interface is permitted to
associate.
When you
SCAN for wireless networks within range, you can
automatically fill in the
BSSID field when you choose a network
to associate to by clicking on the
BSSID displayed (instead of
the
SSID) to select it.
3.3.5.5 Station WMM
When Wi-Fi Multimedia QoS (Quality of Service) is
Enabled on
the
STA Interface, it advertises that it is capable of WMM. If the
AP that the
STA Interface associates to is also capable of and
enabled for WMM, the AP will respond to the
Station Mode
Bridge with this information and WMM will be used for the
association. If the AP is not capable of and enabled for WMM,
having
WMM Enabled on the STA Interface will have no effect.
WMM is Disabled by default for a STA Interface.
If the association is made to a BSS configured on another
Fortress Bridge to serve as a wireless AP (
Wireless Bridge
Disabled, refer to Section 3.3.4.3) and the WMM settings on
both the BSS and the
STA Interface are Enabled, WMM will be
used for the association.