User manual

ing on the antennas used.
Note
Always use the antennas and antenna cables supplied with the equipment to prevent
unintentional violations of the applicable law. If you have special requirements, e.g. re-
garding cable lengths, please contact your dealer or Teldat GmbH.
Bridges are generally used to interconnect various LAN segments at Layer 2 of the OSI
7-layer model. The special feature of Teldat bridges is that the distances between these
segments can be several kilometres, without the necessity for a cable for these ranges.
If you operate a wireless port in Bridge mode, this can only be used for a bridge link. This
means:
• The port has no network name.
• Wireless clients cannot log in (associate) to this port.
• There is no node table for this port (as there are no clients).
• There is no Access Control List (ACL) for this port.
This port will only connect to the partner bridge port you have configured and also only ac-
cept connections from this port.
The Teldat bridges have transmission rates far above the possibilities of the ISDN S0,
ISDN S2M or ADSL. The high-speed bridge even surpasses standard Ethernet (10BaseT,
10Base2, 10Base5).
Caution
Never connect two bridges that have set up a connection to each other with radio to
the same LAN segment. This leads to unavoidable overloading of your network and
stops all network traffic.
Some of the possible network topologies are described here to give you an overview of the
options available when you use Teldat bridges.
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