Cisco AP to AP (point to point) connection

[Pavel Pokorny]

Dear all,

I'm new to this and I have question.

Imagine location where are two switches, and I can't use wire to interconnet them, but I have to use wireless.

Can you suggest solution?

Topology:

clients <-> switch <-> AP   air   AP <-> switch <-> clients

I have found following:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps430/products_configuration_example09186a00805b9b87.shtml

But there are wireless clients on the other side. I need wired (as you can see), or is there any difference?

Does anyone has simple config example?

Thank you very much

Pavel

[tfraij]

Hello Pavel,

you can use root , non root bridge setup.

and on any of them you can add wireless clients support

by command , station role root bridge wireless-client

here is some configuration commands i used previously on root-nonroot setup

ROOT

AP(config)#dot11 ssid talal

AP(config-ssid)#authentication open

AP(config-ssid)#guest-mode

AP(config-ssid)#infrastructure-ssid

AP(config-ssid)#exit

AP(config)#int dot11radio 0

AP(config-if)#encryption mode wep mandatory

AP(config-if)#encryption key 1 size 40bit 123456789a

AP(config-if)#ssid talal

AP(config-if)#no shutdown

AP(config-if)#station-role root Bridge

Ap(config)#int bvi 1

AP(config-if)ip address 192.168.1.20

NON root

AP(config)#dot11 ssid talal

AP(config-ssid)#authentication open

AP(config-ssid)#infrastructure-ssid

AP(config-ssid)#exit

AP(config)#int dot11radio 0

AP(config-if)#encryption mode wep mandatory

AP(config-if)#encryption key 1 size 40bit 123456789a

AP(config-if)#ssid talal

AP(config-if)#no shutdown

AP(config-if)#station-role non-root bridge

Ap(config)#int bvi 1

AP(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.10

Kind regards

Talal

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[kumar.networld]

Hello Pavel,

Talal is right, u can make a root AP1 and other AP2 will non-root and u can configure your AP through command or GUI mode.

[Pavel Pokorny]

Hi,

Thanks for quick answer.

I suppose, there is no difference, if clients (on both sides) are wired or wireless (just not adding wireless clients support).

Am I right?

Thnx

Pavel

[Scott Fella]

No difference.. what Talal and Chandan mentioned above is like if you connected a wired between the two switches.