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544 Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014
Chapter 20 Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points and Workgroup Bridge Mode
• In a mesh network, a workgroup bridge can associate to any mesh access
point, regardless of whether it acts as a root access point or a mesh access
point.
• Wired clients connected to the workgroup bridge are not authenticated
for security. Instead, the workgroup bridge is authenticated against the
access point to which it associates. Therefore, We recommend that you
physically secure the wired side of the workgroup bridge.
• With Layer 3 roaming, if you plug a wired client into the workgroup
bridge network after the workgroup bridge has roamed to another
controller (for example, to a foreign controller), the wired client’s IP
address appears only on the anchor controller, not on the foreign
controller.
• When you delete a workgroup bridge record from the controller, all of the
workgroup bridge wired clients’ records are also deleted.
• Wired clients connected to a workgroup bridge inherit the workgroup
bridge’s QoS and AAA override attributes.
• These features are not supported for wired clients connected to a
workgroup bridge:
– MAC filtering
– Link tests
– Idle timeout
• You don’t need to configure anything on the controller to enable the
workgroup bridge to communicate with the lightweight access point.
However, to ensure proper communication, create a WLAN on the
controller that matches the SSID and security method that was configured
on the workgroup bridge.