Setting Up A Repeater - Allen-Bradley Stratix 5100 User Manual

Chapter 20 Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points and Workgroup Bridge Mode

Setting Up a Repeater

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Beginning in Privileged Exec mode, follow these steps to configure an access
point as a repeater:
1. Enter the global configuration mode.
configure terminal
2. Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
– The 2.4 GHz radio and the 2.4 GHz 802.11n radio is 0.
– The 5 GHz radio and the 5 GHz 802.11n radio is 1.
interface dot11radio { 0 | 1 }
3. Create the SSID that the repeater uses to associate to a root access point; in
the next step designate this SSID as an infrastructure SSID. If you created
an infrastructure SSID on the root access point, create the same SSID on
the repeater, also.
ssid ssid-string
4. Designate the SSID as an infrastructure SSID. The repeater uses this SSID
to associate to the root access point. Infrastructure devices must associate
to the repeater access point by using this SSID unless you also enter the
optional keyword.
The infrastructure SSID must be assigned to the native VLAN. If more
than one VLAN is created on an access point or wireless bridge, an
infrastructure SSID cannot be assigned to a non-native VLAN. The
following message appears when the infrastructure SSID is configured on
non-native VLAN:
SSID [xxx] must be configured as native-vlan before enabling
infrastructure-ssid
infrastructure-ssid [optional]
5. Exit SSID configuration mode and return to radio interface configuration
mode.
exit
6. Set the access point's role in the wireless LAN to repeater.
station-role repeater
7. If Aironet extensions are disabled, enable Aironet extensions.
dot11 extensions aironet
8. (Optional) Enter the MAC address for the access point to which the
repeater should associate.
You can enter MAC addresses for up to four parent access points. The
repeater attempts to associate to MAC address 1 first; if that access point
does not respond, the repeater tries the next access point in its parent list.
If multiple BSSIDs are configured on the parent access point, the MAC
address for the parent might change if a BSSID on the parent is added or
deleted.
Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014