Cisco Aironet Design and config Question

[teltac]

Dear All,

i have a question regarding Cisco Aironet design and config :

well i have an existed Csico Aironet 350 based Wireless Link ( point-to-point) connection between Site A( Head Office considered as Root Bridge) and Site B ( Remote branch considered as Non root Bridge) ,

i have multiple remote branches (site C , Site D,...) , i am planning to connect these remote sites to main Building ( Site A) Via Site B , by just adding a New Cisco Aironet Bridge witn Omni directional antenna at site B and installing Cisco Aironet Bridges at the remote bridges with Unidirectional antennas , in other Words in Site B there will be two bridges and this site is used as Relay ( i am not planning to use Site B as repeater in order do not degrade throughput and performance).

well my config question is : let Say the main link( Site A to site B ) is using SSID : cisco and Channel 1 , and taking into consideration that remote branches will be assigned the same ip network subnet as Site A and Site B , is it possible to use the same SSID for the other Links between Site B and remote Branches with channel 6 ? how shall i configure the second new bridge at site B to be able to associate with the bridges at remote branches ? Root ? or Non Root ? can i have more than one active Root bridge in the same SSID ? does this design ( same SSID , with two different channels ) induce interference or affect performance ?

sorry for that long story and thanks in advance for your help

Best Regards,

Ali

[s-doyle]

You cannot have more then one active Root bridge in the same SSID, the better option is same SSID in two different channels.

[teltac]

Hi,

thanks for your reply,

but the issue is : i am using Cisco WorkGroup Bridges 350 at the remote branches( Site C , Site D,..) and two Cisco Aironet 350 Bridges at the site B wchich used as a relay site.

the problem i am facing is as i have all sites in the same SSID and the Aironet 350 bridge in the main blg(Site A) was configured as Root Bridge , I could NOT get the remote workgroup bridges associated to the SECOND Cisco Aironet 350 Bridge in Site B configured as Non Root w/Clients or Non Root/wo Clients ? SO WHAT SHALL I DO to solve my problem and get all sites connected ?

is it possible to control or to assigne a specific Channel on the Cisco Workgroup Bridges 350?

Thanks for your help

Regards,

Ali.