John,1) yes, you can reserve the IPs for the 4410N's by MAC of each device. That works fine but why not just explicitly set the IP of each device to be static? Take a troubleshooting step out of the loop.2)Even after doing that the status tab show...
I wish I had answers to all of your questions, but I'm afraid that I can mostly offer moral support. I too have a pair of AP541N's doing WDS bridging. In my case they are bridging two LAN's in separate buildings. The AP's have line-of-sight to eac...