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Industrial Ethernet Wireless LAN RLM Manager, CP 1515 Manager

C79000-G8976-C171-01

4. (Optional) To add a non-listed protocol to the list, click the

&XVWRP

button to enter the protocol manually.

5. When finished click

2.

to return to the

%ULGJH

tab as pictured in

Figure 36

.

All of the protocols that you have selected, and/or all of the custom
protocols that you have added manually, will be listed in the

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field.

6. You can now select one of the other Bridge parameter options, change

other parameters or click

2.

to save your changes and return to the

main RLM Manager window.

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To filter out traffic exchanged between stations that is not required to be
sent or received via the wireless interface, you can set the

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DGGUHVV )LOWHU

in the bottom section of the

%ULGJH

tab. The default value,

1RQH!

will be acceptable for most networking environments (see

Figure

36 Bridge Tab in the Edit Mode

).

You can use the MAC filtering option for example to filter broadcast or
multicast messages exchanged between wired servers that can receive
each others messages also via the wired network.

To filter out traffic between such devices add the MAC addresses of both
devices as a pair in the

6WDWLF 0$& DGGUHVV )LOWHU

list.

The way the filter works is that when one of the listed stations sends a
message to a MAC address that has been identified as a pair, the Access
Point RLM will not forward it via the wireless station. All traffic that one of