EnGenius Technologies IEEE 802.11b Outdoor Wireless Client Bridge Network Topologies, Remarks

Chapter 3. Network Topologies

This chapter describes several main types of installations implemented by using the Outdoor Wireless System commonly. This is by no means intended to be an exhaustive list of all possible configurations, but rather shows examples of some of the more common implementations. The Wireless client bridge can only be configured into Wireless Client Router/Bridge to accomplish the broadband wireless point-to-point, point- to-multipoint systems with Central Bridge as the figure shown below.

The Wireless client bridge performs in either router or bridge mode. In a Point-to-Multipoint topology, all communication between network systems is done through a centralized agent. Among the Outdoor Wireless Router/Bridge products, the centralized agent is Central Router or Central Bridge and the individual network notes may be Wireless Client Router or Bridge .

To show the available Point-to-Multipoint topologies, the following examples are provided.

1.Wireless Client Bridge-to-Central Wireless Bridge

2.Wireless Client Router-to-Central Wireless Bridge

3.Wireless Client Bridge-to-Central Wireless Router

4.Wireless Client Router-to-Central Wireless Router

3.1Wireless Client Bridge-to-Central Wireless Bridge

Step 1 Set the Central Outdoor Unit *1 (hereinafter, “COU”) to perform a bridge (bridge IP address: 192.168.2.1).

Step 2 Set Wireless parameters on COU: Channel (1) and SSID (wireless)

Step 3 Set the Remote Outdoor Unit *2 (hereinafter, “ROU”) to perform a bridge (bridge IP address: 192.168.2.2).

Step 4 Set Wireless parameters on ROU: Channel (1) and SSID (wireless), and these parameters must be the same with COU.

Step 5 Left side subnet is transparent to the right side.

Step 6 DHCP server assign IP address to PC1 and PC2

Remarks:

*1 COU refers to Outdoor Wireless Router Bridge

*2 Both and Wireless client bridge could function the role of ROU

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