Interoperability

[vectorlink]

I am using Cisco AP352's as AP's on a WISP network. I have customer's buying their own CPE and most talk just find with the 352's. I have one customer that has bought a Smartbridges AirPoint Total. It does not seem to want to associate with the Cisco AP even though it sees it just fine. A note in the unit's user guide states:

"smartBridges use Address-4 field, which is an optional field as specified by IEEE 802.11b standard. All the IEEE 802.11 b compliant wireless access points supporting this field can be used with Client-Bridge mode."

Thoughts?

[derwin]

Just having a look on the WiFi site there is no products by Smartbridges.

This infers that they are NOT WiFi certified. You will need to confirm with them to see if they are certified and the WiFi site has not been updated yet.

If a device is not WiFi certified then there is no gaurentee of interoperability.

There is a big difference in a vendor claiming they are IEEE802.11b compliant and being WiFi certified.