User's Guide

3e-531AP Wireless Access Point

Chapter 5: Bridge Con guration

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The

Wireless Con guration — Bridging

screen is used to enable/

disable Wireless Client Access and Spanning Tree Protocol and to con-

 gure the BSSID of the peer bridges. This page is important in setting

up your bridge con guration. We recommend that you disable Wireless

Client Access for all bridge setups except repeater.

Spanning Tree Protocol

should be enabled if there is any possibility that a

bridging loop could oc-

cur. If you are certain that there is no possibility that a bridging loop will

occur, you should disable Spanning Tree Protocol, because the bridge will

be more ef cient (faster) without it. However, if not sure, the safest solu-

tion is to enable Spanning Tree Protocol.

The

Wireless Con guration — Bridging Encryption

page is used to

con gure static encryption keys for the wireless bridge. This is an impor-

tant page to set up to ensure that your bridge is working correctly. The en-

cryption key that you use on this screen must be the same for any bridge

connected to your bridging network in order for communication to occur.

And on this screen, you can only select either a static 192 bit

3DES key or

AES key of either 128-bit, 192-bit, or 256-bit.

NOTE

: You can also select to leave encryption

OFF

, but this is not

recommended.