358 Configuring WLAN mesh services
NN47250-500 (Version 03.01)
Figure 20. Wireless Bridging
The wireless bridge is established between a Mesh Portal AP and an associated Mesh AP. The bridged data packets are
present on the Ethernet interfaces of the two APs.
A Mesh Portal AP deployed as a bridge endpoint can support up to five Mesh APs configured as bridge endpoints. A
Mesh AP serving as a bridge endpoint picks up packets from its wired port and transfers them to the other bridge
endpoint. A simple source/destination learning mechanism is used to avoid forwarding packets across the bridge
unnecessarily.
To enable wireless bridging for a service profile, use the following command:
set service-profile mesh-service-profile bridging {enable | disable}
When wireless bridging is enabled for a service profile, the APs with the applied service profile are bridge peers. When
a Mesh AP associates with a Mesh Portal AP through this service profile, the Mesh Portal AP automatically configures
the Mesh AP to operate in bridge mode.
The show service-profile command indicates if bridging is enabled for the service profile.

Displaying WLAN Mesh Services Information

The show ap status terse command indicates which APs are Mesh APs and which are Mesh Portal APs.
For example:
WSS# show ap status terse
Total number of entries: 120
Operational: 1, Image Downloading: 0, Unknown: 119, Other: 0
Flags: o = operational, b = booting, d = image downloading
c = configuring, f = configuration failed
a = auto AP, m = mesh AP, p = mesh portal