Chapter 11 – Building a Wireless Network
With its ability to operate in Access Point, Client Bridge, or Client Router Mode, your EOA7530 is the ideal device around which you can build your WLAN. This appendix describes how to build a WLAN around your EOA7530. It begins with a description of the EOA7530’s three operating modes and then goes on to provide examples of how these operating modes can be used in real‐world configurations and how to configure the EOA7530 to operate in these configurations.
A.1 EOA7530 Operating Modes
The following sections describe the three EOA7530 operating modes.
A.1.1 Access Point Mode
In Access Point Mode, the EOA7530 operates as a central connection for stations or clients that support IEEE 802.11b/g networks. All stations and clients within the wireless area to be covered must be configured to use the same SSID and Security Password to associate with each other. In this operating mode, the EOA7530 supports four SSIDs that can be configured independently to isolate clients.
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