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Cisco IOS Command Reference for Cisco Aironet Access Points and Bridges
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Chapter 2 Cisco IOS Commands for Access Points and Bridges
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Use the rts configuration interface command to set the Request-To-Send (RTS) threshold and the
number of retries. Use the no form of the command to reset the parameter to defaults.
Access Points
[no] rts
{threshold 0-4000 | retries 1-128}
Bridges
[no] rts
{threshold 0-4000 | retries 1-128}
Syntax Description
Defaults The default threshold is 2347 bytes for all access points and bridges.
The default number of retries is 32.
Command Modes Configuration interface
Command History
Usage Guidelines On bridges set up in a point-to-point configuration, set the RTS threshold to 4000 on both the root and
non-root bridges. If you have multiple bridges set up in a point-to-multipoint configuration, set the RTS
threshold to 4000 on the root bridge and to 0 on the non-root bridges.
You have the option to change the rts threshold value on BR1310 and BR1410 bridges to any value in
the range 0 to 4000. For the BR1310 and BR1410, it would be useful to set the rts threshold value in the
range 2348 to 4000 if the packet concatenation feature is enabled and the maximum packet concatenation
size is in the range 0 to 2348.
Examples This example shows how to set the RTS threshold on a bridge to 4000 bytes:
bridge(config-if)# rts threshold 4000
This example shows how to set the RTS retries count to 3:
threshold 0-4000
(0-4000 on bridges)
Specifies the packet size, in bytes, above which the access point or
bridge negotiates an RTS/CTS before sending out the packet.
retries 1-128 Specifies the number of times the access point or bridge issues an RTS
before stopping the attempt to send the packet over the radio.
Release Modification
12.2(4)JA This command was introduced.
12.2(11)JA This command was modified to support bridges.