Chapter 1: Getting Started
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You may also need to adjust the flooding parameters. Here are some
recommendations:
If there are no end devices on the secondary LAN, the bridge on the
secondary LAN can use the default flooding settings. The Secondary
LAN Flooding parameter is disabled.
If there are end devices on the secondary LAN, the bridge on the
secondary LAN should have Secondary LAN Flooding parameter set
to Multicast. If you also want unicast flooding, you can set this
parameter to Enabled.
If there are end devices on the secondary LAN and the end devices
communicate with end devices on another secondary LAN, the root
access point should have its Multicast Flooding parameter set to
Universal. This setting ensures that all ARP requests and multicast
traffic is distributed through a second or third hop.
To install a point-to-point or a point-to-multipoint bridge
1. Follow the instructions for installing a simple wireless network in the
section “Using One Access Point in a Simple Wireless Network” on
page 21.
2. Configure the LAN ID. For help, see “Configuring the Spanning Tree
Parameters” on page 136.
3. Configure one of the master radio service sets in the designated
bridge on the secondary LAN to communicate with the end device
radios.
4. (802.11g and 802.11b) Configure the station radio in the designated
bridge to communicate with one of the master radio service sets in the
point-to-point bridge on the primary LAN:
a. From the main menu, click the link corresponding to the station
radio. The radio screen appears.
b. In the Primary service set Node Type field, choose Station.
c. In the Primary service set SSID (Network Name) field, type the
SSID that matched the SSID of the root access point radio service
set (Step 1). In this example, the SSID is Manufacturing.
d. Click Submit Changes. The screen updates.
5. Configure the spanning tree settings for the designated bridge:
a. From the main menu, click Spanning Tree Settings. The Spanning
Tree Settings screen appears.
b. In the Root Priority field, enter 0.