Professional Access Point

Administrator Guide

(2,346 bytes) effectively disables fragmentation.

The following command sets the fragmentation threshold to 2000.

USR5453-AP#set radio wlan0 fragmentation-threshold 2000

7. Set the RTS Threshold

You can specify an RTS Threshold value between 0 and 2347. The RTS threshold specifies the packet size of a request to send (RTS) transmission. This helps control traffic flow through the access point, especially one with a lot of clients.

The following command sets the RTS threshold at

USR5453-AP#set radio wlan0 rts-threshold 2346

8. Configure Basic and Supported Rate Sets

Add a basic rate set

add basic-rateWirelessInterface rate SomeRate

 

For example:

 

add basic-rate wlan0 rate 48

Get current basic rates

get basic-rate

Add supported rate

add supported-rateWirelessInterfaceName rate SomeRate

 

For example:

 

add supported-rate wlan0 rate 9

Get current supported rates

get supported-rate wlan0

The following command adds "48" as a basic rate to wlan0 (the internal, wireless interface):

USR5453-AP#add basic-rate wlan0 rate 48

To get the basic rates currently configured for this access point:

USR5453-AP#get basic-rate

name

rate

-----------

wlan0

11

wlan0

5.5

wlan0

2

wlan0

1

wlan1

24

wlan1

12

wlan1

6

wlan0

48

The following command adds "9" as a supported rate to wlan0 (the internal, wireless interface):

USR5453-AP#add supported-rate wlan0 rate 9

To get the supported rates currently configured for this access point (using "wlan0" as the interface for this example):

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