Extreme Networks Summit WM User Manual page 218

WM Access Domain Services configuration
NOTE
If a parent Altitude AP fails or stops to act a parent, the children Altitude APs will attempt to discover their backup
parents. If the backup parents are not defined, the children Altitude APs will be left stranded.
The following figure illustrates the parent-child relationship between the nodes in a WDS topology.
Figure 17: Parent-child relationship between Altitude APs in WDS configuration
Summit WM
Controller
Satellite Wireless AP 1
The WDS system enables you to configure the Altitude AP's role - parent, child or both - from the
Summit WM Controller's interface. If the WDS Altitude AP will be serving as a parent and a child in a
given topology, its role is configured as both.
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Root Wireless AP
Repeater Wireless AP 1
Repeater Wireless AP 2
Satellite Wireless AP 2
Client Devices
Root Wireless AP is the parent of
Repeater Wireless AP 1.
Repeater Wireless AP 1 is the child of
Root Wireless AP.
Repeater Wireless AP 1 is the parent of
Repeater Wireless AP 2.
Repeater Wireless AP 2 is the child of
Repeater Wireless AP 1.
Repeater Wireless AP 2 is the parent of
the following Wireless APs:
> Satellite Wireless AP 1
> Satellite Wireless AP 2
> Satellite Wireless AP 3
All the three Satellite APs are the
children of Repeater Wireless AP 2.
Satellite Wireless AP 3
Client Devices
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