There is fairly extensive help on the wireless controller about WDS. Here is the link on the controller I'm on. You can search the help for Deploying WDS and you should find it: https://1.1.1.1:5825/Help/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=User_Guide/hwc_wds.11.8.html<https://10.20.0.228:5825/Help/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=User_Guide/hwc_wds.11.8.html>
Brian Anderson [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Network Engineer P.O. Box 30051, Edmond, OK 73003 C +1 (501) 690-3305 F +1 (405) 562-8669 [Arcadia] From: Daggett, John [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:55 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: [enterasys] WDS - Wireless Bridge Configuration I think that I am trying to do something too basic to be officially documented by Enterasys, but I seem to be missing something and I am having a terrible time with it. Perhaps someone out there can help me out. I want to set up a simple point-to-point wireless "tunnel" to drive a remote Ethernet switch and wired LAN segment over a pair of 37xx AP. The documentation says that I can do this (they call it the "Wireless Bridge Configuration" of WDS) and they even have a nice little picture of exactly what I want to do. The sum-total of the documentation that I can find is in the attached JPEG however. "...you must specify on the user interface that a Satellite AP is connected to the wired LAN". Great - what do they mean by that? I have found a place on the VNS Configuration/WLAN Services screen of the controller, where I configure the WDS Service, to check a box stating that the remote satellite-AP is participating in WDS and acting as a "WDS Bridge", but things are still not working right. As long as I have the remote satellite-AP connected to a PoE switch with the Ethernet port disabled (i.e. delivering power but no Ethernet), everything works great. This is the configuration that Enterasys calls "Simple WDS" and it is wireless-only. I have the Wifi Bridge up, the remote AP is visible to the controller over the wifi bridge and I can even connect a wifi client to the remote satellite-AP over an enabled WLAN and it all works, but that isn't good enough. I also need the remote satellite-AP wired port to pass traffic into the switch on the remote side, just as it shows in the diagram for LAN Segment-2. The problem is that as soon as I "enable" the switch-port that the remote satellite-AP is attached to, it drops the wifi bridge link and seems to go off searching for a controller on the LAN Segment-2 side, and there isn't one of course. When I disable the Ethernet port again, the wifi bridge connection comes back. How do I tell the remote satellite-AP that it is attached to an independent LAN and not a segment that has a controller on it? How do I configure it to pass tunneled traffic from LAN segment-1 to LAN segment-2 over that remote wired port? Thanks JD * --To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 2014.0.4158 / Virus Database: 3615/6788 - Release Date: 10/28/13 --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
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