Jerry, Unfortunately it is technically not feasible for us at this time to do the Repeater function without the Address 4 field support.
The only solution I could think of to your problem is to use the aB <-> aP to act as the repeater. This will work with any main AP. I don't like to suggest this much because of limitations on the MAC # etc. A better solution would be ap-CB <-> aP. But then again it requires Address 4 at the main AP and is also a little more expensive. Nish -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Carter Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [smartBridges] APP repeater firmware? I still do not understand if the airbridge can do that at $150 why can they not make the app ($330) do this mac nat? I have cisco radios that repeat so they must have address 4? Right now I am trying to use an airbridge to connect to the main ap(cisco) and setup the app in ap mode(making a repeater). I can get this to work but the thruput is terrible. I will try some more. I would really like to use sb products but I am not going to replace all of the repeaters at once. If I cannot get this to work then maybe I just stick with airbridge for customer and go with something else for ap's. The main reason for me wanting to go with smartbridge was to get away from the cisco proprietary extentions. It looks as though sb might be another problem with this address 4?? I want to have a system that does not need me to turn stuff on and off to get everything working again (cisco extentions). If sommething has a temp disconnect it comes back up by itself. Tired of babysitting the network. SB is the right pricerange. Any suggestions? Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Gaarden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [smartBridges] APP repeater firmware? > Jerry Carter wrote: > > >Yes thats what I was talking about. Is there no way > >you can make a version of the firmware that allows your > >firmware to turn your address 4 field off in repeater > >mode so that it can work with other products? If you > >can make non-sb be able to connect to repeater why can > >you not make the repeater connect to non-sb for uplink? > >Now I suppose that to use your product I have to get back > >to back radios everywhere I want a repeater? > > In order for the repeater to transparently forward frames from > its clients to the primary AP, the AP must support "address 4". > You can't do transparent bridging of ethernet frames without "address > 4". > > It might perhaps be possible to make a repeater that doesn't require > "address 4" support on the primary AP - but that would require the > repeater to do MAC NAT similar to the airBridge in multimac mode. > > -- > LarsG > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://198.63.203.6 > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://198.63.203.6
