Wireless Bridging when only 1 SSID & 1 VLAN throughout the site

[Dean Romanelli]

Hi All,

I need to set up one of the autonomous AP's at one of my field sites in bridge mode due to lack of cabling and inability to add cabling in the near future.  However, the production SSID that everyone connects to is on the native vlan 1, and that is the only SSID through the building, which is a flat network.  I've read guides that suggest that the non-root bridge AP and the root-bridge AP that receives it's signal need to use an infrastructure SSID.

Can the infrastructure SSID be the same SSID that wireless-clients connect to on the non-root bridge? Or does it need to be it's own SSID that is only used to bridge up to the nearest AP?

[Rasika Nayanajith · Accepted solution]

It is not mandatory that bridge SSID to be an "infrastructure SSID".

When configuring radio role, you can add "wireless-clients" keyword in order to end user to connect to same SSID

station-role non-root bridge wireless-clients

You can refer initial part of this blog post to derive what configuration you required. In your case only vlan 1 is in use, so you do not want to create sub-interfaces, instead you can use physical interfaces

https://mrncciew.com/2013/11/09/wireless-bridge-with-eap-fast/

HTH

Rasika

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