Hi, there is a lot of documentation on our support site http://www.enterasys.com/support , which describes the features WDS (and also MESH, might be a option) and how they are configured. It's well described.
Sorry, can't provide the direct links, only on my mobile phone at the moment. Is there a chance that you create a Layer 2 Loop (in the test environment) and Spanning-Tree is disabling a port and forwarding is interrupted? This is what mostly happens if WDS is setup to test it. Maybe this helps. Kind regards, Markus On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Daggett, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] with > the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] > > --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
