Configuring Ethernet Bridging - Cisco Mesh Access Points Deployment Manual

Connecting the Cisco 1500 Series Mesh Access Points to the Network
Using 1552 802.11n provides you higher throughput and more capacity. It offers a very fat backhaul pipe
Note
to start with from the RAP.
Figure 58: AP1552 Backhaul Throughput
Table 31: AP1552 Backhaul capacity
HOPS
Maximum Throughput (20
MHz BH)
Maximum Throughput (40
MHz BH)

Configuring Ethernet Bridging

For security reasons, the Ethernet port on all MAPs is disabled by default. It can be enabled only by configuring
Ethernet bridging on the root and its respective MAP.
Note Exceptions are allowed for a few protocols even though Ethernet bridging is disabled. For example, the
following protocols are allowed:??– Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)?– Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)?–
Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)?– Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)
packets??Due to the exceptions and to prevent loop issues, we recommend that you do not connect two
MAPs to each other over their Ethernet ports, unless they are configured as trunk ports on different native
VLANs, and each is connected to a similarly configured switch.
Ethernet bridging has to be enabled for two scenarios:
1 When you want to use the mesh nodes as bridges (see
132).
OL-27593-01
RAP One
112 Mbps 83 Mbps
206 Mbps 111 Mbps
Figure 59: Point-to-Multipoint Bridging, on page
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Two Three
41 Mbps 25 Mbps
94 Mbps 49 Mbps
Four
15 Mbps
35 Mbps
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