In A Lightweight Environment - Allen-Bradley Stratix 5100 User Manual

Guidelines for Using
Workgroup Bridges in a
Lightweight Environment
Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points and Workgroup Bridge Mode
Follow these guidelines for using workgroup bridges on your lightweight
network:
• The workgroup bridge can be any autonomous access point that supports
the workgroup bridge mode and is running Cisco IOS Release JA or
greater (on 32-MB access points).
If your access point has two radios, you can configure only one for workgroup
TIP
bridge mode. This radio is used to connect to the lightweight access point. We
recommend that you disable the second radio.
Perform one of the following to enable the workgroup bridge mode on the
workgroup bridge:
• On the workgroup bridge access point GUI, choose Workgroup Bridge for
the role in radio network on the Settings > Network Interfaces page.
• On the workgroup bridge access point CLI, enter this command:
station-role workgroup-bridge
• The workgroup bridge can associate only to lightweight access points.
• Only workgroup bridge in client mode (default value) are supported.
Those in infrastructure mode are not supported. Perform one of the
following to enable client mode on the workgroup bridge:
• On the workgroup bridge access point GUI, choose Disabled for the
Reliable Multicast to workgroup bridge parameter.
• On the workgroup bridge access point CLI, enter this command:
infrastructure client
VLANs are not supported for use with workgroup bridges.
TIP
• These lightweight features are supported for use with a workgroup bridge:
– Guest N+1 redundancy
– Local EAP
• These lightweight features are not supported for use with a workgroup
bridge:
– Cisco Centralized Key Management (CCKM)
– Hybrid REAP
– Idle timeout
– Web authentication
If a workgroup bridge associates to a web-authentication WLAN, the
TIP
workgroup bridge is added to the exclusion list, and all of the workgroup
bridge wired clients are deleted.
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