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3e-528 Wireless Video Server Chapter 5: Bridge Conguration
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3e-528 Wireless Video Server Chapter 5: Bridge Conguration
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Bridge Antenna Alignment
To align the bridge antennas using 3e-528's software, perform the fol-
lowing steps:
1. Go to the Wireless Conguration — Bridging screen. At the bot-
tom of this screen select the bridge channel from the Remote AP's
MAC Address list.
2. Click on the Monitoring button at the top of the screen and select
enable refresh and set the bridge refresh interval.
3. View the Monitoring window while adjusting the bridge antenna
direction to obtain the maximum signal strength.
The following sections describe the setup for three types of bridging
conguration: point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, or, lastly, repeater.
Setting Up Bridging Type
Point-to-Point Bridge Conguration
A point-to-point link is a direct connection between two, and only
two, locations or nodes.
For the two bridges that are to be linked to communicate properly,
they must be set up with identical options in the setup screens.
For instance, the bridges must have the same channel number. Span-
ning Tree Protocol may be set to Enable, if there is any possibility of a
bridging loop, or to Disable (which is more efcient) if there's no possibil-
ity of a bridging loop. Each bridge must contain the other's BSSID. (The
BSSID of each is equivalent to the MAC address contained on the Wire-
less Conguration — Bridging setup page. Data entry is not case sensi-
tive.) Finally, the wireless bridging encryption must be set to the appro-
priate type and key length and must be identical on each bridge.
The following chart shows sample settings.