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You must complete the configuration of your Bridge 1 by following
the general instructions in Chapter 3 of this guide to establish any other
required configuration options such as General, WAN and LAN settings.
Configure the second of your two point-to-point bridges following the
instructions given for Bridge 1 above.
Point-to-Multipoint Bridge Configuration
A point-to-multipoint configuration allows you to set up three or
more 3e-525A access points in bridging mode and accomplish bridging
between 3 or more locations wirelessly.
For the three 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 configured 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 Configuration
— 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-525A 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
protocol with no loss of efficiency in bridging if you wish.
The following diagram pictures a point-to-multipoint setup, which
might be of use where a company's network spans several buildings
within a campus-like setting.
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