Thanks; What I am doing looks like the original attached Enterasys diagram, but without the repeater-device in the middle (which the documentation presents as optional anyway). So - there are only 2 AP at the moment, a parent and a child that is attached to the LAN segment-2.
JD From: Reese Borel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:34 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: RE: [enterasys] WDS - Wireless Bridge Configuration Just catching this... To clarify, what you are doing is a double hop? Thanks, Reese From: Daggett, John [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:27 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: RE: [enterasys] WDS - Wireless Bridge Configuration The Enterasys documentation is not useful because although it goes on for many pages about several different complex bridging configurations (which I have read through several times) there is no decent description of this very simplistic connection, other than the quarter-page that I included as an attachment. What I am looking for is a "trick" from someone who has actually done this. The issue that I am having seems to be in the remote-AP, not the remote switch. Once the AP Ethernet port is activated the remote switch seems perfectly happy and its port is up and active and not STP-blocked. It is the remote AP, including its wireless bridge link, that gets confused and goes down. Thanks anyway JD From: Kaiser, Markus [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:16 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: Re: [enterasys] WDS - Wireless Bridge Configuration 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]<mailto:[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? 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