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Wireless LAN Extension

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Table of Contents

The Benefits of a Wireless Bridge ...................................................................................................... 4

Using the Meraki MR58 for your Point-to-Point Link ........................................................................ 5

Setting up the MR58 for Point-to-Point Connectivity ........................................................................ 5

Adding Wired Connectivity to the Remote Site ................................................................................. 5

Adding Meraki AP’s to the remote side of the link ............................................................................ 6

VLANs ................................................................................................................................................. 7

Configuring your Point-to-Point link in the Dashboard ...................................................................... 8

Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 9

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Summary of Contents for MR58

Page 1: ...etween sites using the Meraki MR58 Version 1 0 June 2010 In a multi site deployment wired infrastructure may not be available between sites but LAN connectivity for both sites is still required In this case a wireless point to point link may be beneficial to connect the two sites together ...

Page 2: ...9 Copyright 2010 Meraki Inc All rights reserved Trademarks Meraki is a registered trademark of Meraki Inc www meraki com 660 Alabama St San Francisco California 94110 Phone 1 415 632 5800 Fax 1 415 632 5899 ...

Page 3: ...the Meraki MR58 for your Point to Point Link 5 2 1 Setting up the MR58 for Point to Point Connectivity 5 2 2 Adding Wired Connectivity to the Remote Site 5 2 3 Adding Meraki AP s to the remote side of the link 6 2 4 VLANs 7 3 Configuring your Point to Point link in the Dashboard 8 4 Conclusion 9 ...

Page 4: ...cally distant sites together without the expense of installing wired networking cable A bridge enables one or more remote sites to appear to be on the same network as a central site ensuring access to resources such as file shares Domain services and so on Meraki bridges are simple to install configure and maintain ...

Page 5: ...em in order to offer wireless client connectivity at both sides of the link 2 2 Adding Wired Connectivity to the Remote Site The manner in which a point to point link will link sites is to have one unit serve as the Meraki gateway at the home site and one unit function as a repeater at the remote site It is important that the Meraki unit at the remote site act as a repeater The way Meraki determin...

Page 6: ...a wired hop is created i e when a Meraki AP is plugged into a neighboring Meraki AP for connectivity So to properly connect multiple Meraki devices to the MR58 repeater s wired interface a switch must be added that has ONLY Meraki equipment connected to it A mixture of wired clients and wired Meraki AP s attached to one MR58 interface will not work This is due to the auto detection mechanisms that...

Page 7: ...remains unaffected at the central site in all cases the remote site s WIRED connectivity must be a member of one VLAN only wireless clients will be unaffected Any VLAN that has been configured for an SSID in the Meraki network can be selected as the remote site VLAN ...

Page 8: ...eless link to function properly 1 Under Configure Access control Addressing and Traffic the Bridge Mode radio button should be selected This will instruct the Meraki network to operate as a wireless extension of your LAN and rely on the LAN configuration for all network connectivity 2 Under Configure Network wide settings Device Configuration select Clients wired directly to Meraki AP s behave lik...

Page 9: ... point bridge There is no complicated setup such as you might expect with traditional wireless bridging products since the Meraki Mesh automates link creation Connecting all areas of a campus together on one network simplifies management leverages existing internal resources and enables single sign on for wireless users across the campus ...

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