Hi John, If you are unchecking the "Bridge" box and it starts working, it sounds like there may be a connection between your LAN 1 and LAN 2 segments, and when "Bridging" is enabled, there is a loop. In this case, the radio will shut off. If you are able to successfully "disable" bridging and push that configuration to the child AP, then it sounds like it has a network connection somewhere.
When the WDS is deployed, the child AP should be removed from any local network and rebooted to connect to the Parent AP. If Bridging, that LAN segment should be isolated and will bridge back through the AP's. We will get a GTAC case opened up and work through this with you. Thanks, Jason Jason Noni | Escalation Support Engineer Enterasys Networks Office: 603.952.5636 | Toll Free: 800.872.8440 Email: [email protected] Twitter ID: jason_noni On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Daggett, John <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks. One thing that I have found while experimenting; **** > > ** ** > > The WDS Service configuration has a check-box to specify “WDS Bridging” on > the remote AP (not the parent). One would logically assume (though it is > not documented) that this is what we need in order to do “bridging” over > the remote-AP RJ45 port. In a desperate and very counter-intuitive stab, I > actually clicked this check-box *OFF*, and then I found that at least the > remote AP stayed up-and-running when the switch Ethernet port was active – > although it was still not passing traffic into the attached switch. **** > > ** ** > > I hate to declare that things are “broken”, but I am starting to wonder. * > *** > > ** ** > > JD**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Matthew Hunter [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:35 AM > *To:* Enterasys Customer Mailing List > *Subject:* RE: [enterasys] WDS - Wireless Bridge Configuration**** > > ** ** > > I went through something similar when I was setting up my point to point > bridge. I was just missing a checkbox. Your first post you mentioned a > checkbox but I figured I would share this with you anyways. I’ve attached > a screenshot of the checkbox. Once I set this the WDS bridge worked > perfect. **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Daggett, John [mailto:[email protected] <[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]<[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]> > 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] **** > > > - --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] **** > > > - --To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with > the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] > > -- Jason Noni | Escalation Support Engineer Enterasys Networks Office: 603.952.5636 | Toll Free: 800.872.8440 Email: [email protected] Twitter ID: jason_noni --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
