Fortress Technologies ecure Wireless Access Bridge User Manual

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show radio

[RADIO 1]
Radio State: On
Radio Band: 802.11g
Radio Mode: AP
Channel: 1
Tx Power: Auto
Distance: 1
Beacon Interval: 100
Preamble: Short
Multicast: On
RSSI Monitor: Off
[RADIO 2]
State: On
Radio Band: 802.11a
Radio Mode: Bridge
Bridge Mode: Root
Channel: 149
Tx Power: Auto
Distance: 1
Beacon Interval: 100
Multicast: On
RSSI Monitor: Off

NOTE:

The Bridge

CLI makes avail-

able certain Linux®
Wireless Extension
Tools for the configura-
tion of the Atheros®
wireless driver. These
can be used for addi-
tional WLAN configura-
tion. Refer to Section 6.7
for more detail.

RADIO 1

identifies the 802.11a/b/g, multi-mode radio

associated with the Bridges’ antenna port 1 (

ANT1

), while

RADIO 2

identifies the higher-gain 802.11a radio associated

with antenna port 2 (

ANT2

To view the current setting for a radio individually, specify the
radio by number (

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show radio 1

[RADIO 1]
Radio State: On
Radio Band: 802.11g
Radio Mode: AP
Channel: 1
Tx Power: Auto
Distance: 1
Beacon Interval: 100
Preamble: Short
Multicast: On
RSSI Monitor: Off

NOTE:

If you are

deploying multi-

ple Fortress Bridges in a
point-to-point/multi-
point network they
must be correctly con-
figured for their net-
work roles, typically
with one serving as the
root node and the rest
configured as non-root
nodes (refer to Section
3.3.1.4 for more detail).

Configure radio settings interactively by entering the

set

command with just the

radio 1

radio 2

argument. The

Bridge CLI presents one field at a time, and you can either
enter a new value for a given field or strike

Enter

↵

to leave the

value unchanged and go on to the next field.

The options presented depend, in part, on the configuration
choices you make. A radio with a

Radio Mode

setting of

, for

instance, will not provide you an opportunity to set the

Bridge

Mode

, unless you change the

Radio Mode

bridge

, at which

point the

Bridge Mode

option will be inserted dynamically, as

shown below.