Chapter 1 Introducing the NWA
1.2.2 Bridge / Repeater
The NWA can act as a wireless network bridge and establish wireless links with other APs. In the figure below, the two NWAs (A and B) are connected to independent wired networks and have a bridge connection (A can communicate with B) at the same time. A NWA in repeater mode (C in Figure 3) has no Ethernet connection. When the NWA is in bridge mode, you should enable Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) to prevent bridge loops.
When the NWA is in Bridge / Repeater mode, security between APs (the Wireless Distribution System or WDS) is independent of the security between the wireless stations and the AP. If you do not enable WDS security, traffic between APs is not encrypted. When WDS security is enabled, both APs must use the same pre- shared key. See Section 8.2.2 on page 127 for more details.
Once the security settings of peer sides match one another, the connection between devices is made.
At the time of writing, WDS security is compatible with other ZyXEL access points only. Refer to your other access point’s documentation for details.
Figure 2 Bridge Application
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