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Navigate to the Wireless Configuration—Bridging screen.
In the first section: General, you will see the MAC address of the bridging card. This is used
as the BSSID on other WAB-1000s that will be communicating with this one.
Wireless mode can be set to 802.11g for best rate, to 802.11b (if necessary) or to mixed
802.11b/g. Set basic and supported rates. Channel number must be set the same for each bridge
to communicate. TX Pwr mode can be left on auto unless the power needs to be regulated. Set
Spanning Tree Protocol to enable unless you are sure that there is no chance of a loop.
Bridge signal strength LED port allows you to set the number of one of the remote APs
which will be listed in section 3 at the bottom of the screen once the system is operational as the
guiding port that you wish to have display in the WLANSS LED on the front of the WAB-1000
as a signal. If you don’t wish to display any detecting signal, simply leave this set at 0.
Click Apply to accept your changes but remain on that screen.
In the second section on the Wireless Configuration—Bridging screen, add the BSSID of
the remote bridge. The BSSID corresponds to that bridge's MAC address. In entering the BSSID,