Autonomous Wireless Point-to-Point bridge

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I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I am having difficulty finding documenation on hwo to properly configure Cisco 1552e AP's in Autonomous Mode as Point to Point wireless bridges with just utilizing the wireless link as a backhaul, not client access. We have to go with autonomous because we plan on having Local Mode ap's (CAPWAP) terminated behind the MAP ethernet bridged port. Here is our topology:

Local Network (Controller resides on this network)   ---------> L2 Switch ----------> RAP --------> wireless bridge <---------- MAP <----------> L2 Switch ----> Clients\CAPWAP AP's (servicing clients)

We want to pass all the VLANs we will need for both the wired network and CAPWAP network.

Thoughts?               

[Stephen Rodriguez]

If you already have the bridges in aIOS mode then it configures just like any other aIOS device.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008058f53e.shtml

Steve

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Stephen Rodriguez wrote:
If you already have the bridges in aIOS mode then it configures just like any other aIOS device.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008058f53e.shtml

Steve

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Thanks as well Stephen. This will be useful information to run with too!

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Here is another example of point to point bridge configuration (with EAP-FAST) using Autonomous Access point, it may help you as well

http://mrncciew.com/2013/11/09/wireless-bridge-with-eap-fast/

HTH

Rasika

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rasikanayanajith wrote:
Here is another example of point to point bridge configuration (with EAP-FAST) using Autonomous Access point, it may help you as well
http://mrncciew.com/2013/11/09/wireless-bridge-with-eap-fast/
HTH
Rasika
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This is extremely useful and the exact configuration we are looking to do.

Is there a limit on the number of Bridge-Groups that can be used (essentially number of VLANs)?

Also are you familiar with running Mesh AP's in autonomous mode? Do we lose any features other than management by moving them from CAPWAP to Autonomous?

We have to run these in autonomous because our MAP end will run 3602i local mode APs, so lame that Cisco wont support Capwap over CAPWAP based mesh bridge.

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Is there a limit on the number of Bridge-Groups that can be used (essentially number of VLANs)?

You can configure 255 bridge-groups (or effectively vlans)

AAP1(config-if)#bridge-group ?

  <1-255>  Assign an interface to a Bridge Group.

Also are you familiar with running Mesh AP's in autonomous mode? Do we lose any features other than management by moving them from CAPWAP to Autonomous?

I do not have much experience with Mesh Deployment & hence the answer to this, so you have to rely on any others advise on this.    

Thanks for rating our responses

HTH

Rasika

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