Allied Telesis AT-WL2411 - Manual (Page 116)

Configuring the IEEE 802.11b Radio
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Configuring Point-to-Point Bridges
In your environment, you may have point-to-point bridges, which send
data from wireless end devices on a secondary LAN to a primary LAN.
This data is sent via a wireless hop. Wireless hops are formed when data
from wireless end devices move from one access point to another access
point through the radio ports.
Figure 42 illustrates a point-to-point bridge configuration.
Figure 42 Point-to-Point Bridging
Note
Before you can create wireless hops, the radios in the access points
must be communicating with each other.
To create wireless hops, one radio in the point-to-point bridge on the
primary LAN must be configured as a master and one radio in the bridge
on the secondary LAN must be configured as a station. The master on
the primary LAN must have the Wireless Hops parameter enabled so that
it honors connections from stations. The master transmits hello packets,
which allow the bridge on the secondary LAN to attach to the spanning
tree in the same way that wired access points do.
You need to set the root priority of the master to a number that is
greater than the root priority of the station. The devices will not form a
point-to-point bridge if the master has a lower root priority than the
station. On the master, you should also set the Secondary LAN Bridge
Priority parameter to 0 and the Secondary LAN Flooding parameter to
disabled. On the station, you should set bridge priority parameter to a
number other than 0 and the flooding parameter to enabled.
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