Creating a wireless bridge using 1310's

[jjn2002]

I am replacing an old C-Spec wireless bridge we have between our main building and a building down the street. I am having a problem getting the two 1310's to associate with each other. I have reset them to defaults and configured a ethernet ip on each. I have set the ssid the same on both and one is configured as root and the other non-root. On the one that is non-root radio0 shows as disabled and down. The only way it seems to come up is if I make it root. I have set the channel on the root bridge to channel 7 but the non-root bridge will not let me change the channel it just defaults to least congested frequency. I am just lab testing this with the bridges side by side but it will not work. Any suggestions or settings I should have set? Thanks.

[sorvarit]

Welcome to the club.. Try to set the root bridge mac adress in the table in the non-root bridge radio properties. This was the only way our bridges could find eachother. In fact we must have them in workgroup bridge mode instead of non-root role. Trying to set them in non-root mode get them blind and we have to get out there and reconfigure them.

PS! Do you have the model with integrated antennas or the one with rp-tnc connectors for external antennas?

Orjan

[jjn2002]

Thanks for the reply. I will give try them in workgroup bridge mode and see what happens. The problem seems to be that the non-root bridge radio interface goes to disabled and down when it is set to non root. We have the model with the rp-tnc connectors.

[sorvarit]

In our case i logged the boot process trough a terminal cable when i tried non-root mode. Then i could see that the bridge couldnt find any root parents and shut down the radio. In workgroup bridge mode the bridge found a root paren with no problems. We use 18dbi parabolic antennas and the signal quality is good.

Orjan