Bridging Mode

[Justin Ferello]

Hello all,

I am new to Cisco wireless products, so forgive me for my newbie questions.

I currently have a Linksys WRT150N acting as my wireless core (I know, I cannot change it at the moment)

We recently took over a second floor in the building and we wanted to extend the Linksys signal, so we bought an AP1142N from Cisco to act as a bridge.

1. Does the AP1142N only bridge with other Aironet products?
2. If it can work with the Linksys, how would I configure it to the Linksys as I don't see much with regards to WPA2-Personal running AES?

Thanks,

Justin

[Stephen Rodriguez]

If the AP is on a different floor, why 'extend/bridge'? 

Just configure the 1142 to have the same SSID configs on both devices you should be fine.

HTH,
Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

Steve,

I am sorry, I actually have (2) 1142s that we are trying to configure.  The first one we want to use to extend the network.  The second one is being attached to a mobile TelePresence device (VX Clinical) and we need it to bridge the TP device to the WLAN.

For the first AP, I guess we could do that, then our PCs will just roam between the stronger signal, right?

Thanks,

Justin

[Stephen Rodriguez]

For the first one you are correct.

For the second, you'll probably want to look into WGB mode.

HTH,
Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

Steve,

Thanks for advice.  We have been looking at the WBG but cannot figure out how to configure the AP to use WPA2-PSK & AES.  We see AES CCMP.

Thanks,

Justin

[Stephen Rodriguez · Accepted solution]

under the ssid

dot11 ssid test

authentication open

authentication key-management wpa version 2

wpa-key ascii 0 < your key >

Dot11Radio {0 | 1}

encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm

ssid test

HTH,
Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

Steve,

Again, thank you so much for helping out.  Anyway I ran those commands and settings but its still not connecting.  Do I need to enable the antenna or something?  I did do station-role workgroup-bridge, is there a debug or log system?

Thanks,

Justin

[Stephen Rodriguez]

can you post the config?  So long as the SSID matches, and it can 'hear' it from the network, it should be abel to join.

HTH,
Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

Steve,

Is that just 'show run'?

[Stephen Rodriguez]

yes sir

HTH,
Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

ap#show run

Building configuration...

Current configuration : 1439 bytes

!

version 12.4

no service pad

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

service password-encryption

!

hostname ap

!

enable secret 5 $1$oXn5$UwYFs.rs55vEVD2wy0pkU0

!

no aaa new-model

!

!

dot11 syslog

!

dot11 ssid "KBZ Wireless"

   authentication open

   authentication key-management wpa version 2

   infrastructure-ssid

   wpa-psk ascii 7 113D382B33302E3E23

!        

!

!

username Cisco password 7 00271A150754

!

!

bridge irb

!

!

interface Dot11Radio0

no ip address

no ip route-cache

shutdown

!

encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm

!

ssid "KBZ Wireless"

!

antenna gain 0

station-role workgroup-bridge

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

!

interface Dot11Radio1

no ip address

no ip route-cache

shutdown

antenna gain 0

dfs band 3 block

channel dfs

station-role root

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control

bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source

no bridge-group 1 source-learning

no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

!

interface GigabitEthernet0

no ip address

no ip route-cache

duplex auto

speed auto

no keepalive

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

!        

interface BVI1

ip address dhcp client-id GigabitEthernet0

no ip route-cache

!

ip http server

no ip http secure-server

ip http help-path http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/prodconfig/help/eag

bridge 1 route ip

!

!

!

line con 0

line vty 0 4

login local

!

end

[Stephen Rodriguez]

with a WGB, you shouldn't need the infrastructure command under the SSID.  You also need to do a no shut under the dot11radio 0 interface.

HTH,
Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

Steve,

How does one enter the SSID properly.

If I do:

ssid KBZ Wireless

Then I do not get the sub menus

If I do:

ssid "KBZ Wireless"

It looks like the AP is literally looking for "KBZ Wireless" instead of KBZ Wireless

Thanks,

Justin

[Stephen Rodriguez]

I would remove the "KBZ Witeless". SSID and do it as KBZ_Wireless. White space in the middle like that can cause you issues. And the " is seen as a valid ASCII character

Steve

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[Justin Ferello]

Steve,

Thank you so much for the help, you were fantastic!!  I did the following:

Factory reset

Then type reset to get back to AP console

Then issued the following commands:

enable

Password of Cisco

configure terminal

interface dot11radio 0

station-role workgroup-bridge

encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm

ssid

authentication open

authentication key-management wpa version 2

wpa-key ascii

exit

no shut

exit

exit

wr mem