Rockwell Automation 1783-WAPxxx Stratix 5100 Wireless Access Point User Manual - Manual (Page 384)

384 Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014
Chapter 13 Configuring WDS, Fast Secure Roaming, Radio Management, and Wireless Intrusion Detection Services
Configuring Access Points as
Potential WDS Devices For the main WDS candidate, configure an access point that does not serve a
large number of client devices. If client devices associate to the WDS access point
when it starts up, the clients can wait several minutes to be authenticated.
Repeater access points don’t support WDS. Don’t configure a repeater access
point as a WDS candidate, and don’t configure a WDS access point to fall back
to repeater mode in case of Ethernet failure.
When WDS is enabled, the WDS access point performs and tracks all
authentications. Therefore, you must configure EAP security settings on the
WDS access point.
See Configuring Authentication Types on page 359 for instructions on
configuring EAP on the access point.
You cannot configure a 350 series access point as your main WDS device.
However, you can configure 350 series access points to participate in WDS.
On the access point that you want to configure as your primary WDS access
point, follow these steps to configure the access point as the main WDS
candidate:
1. Go to the Wireless Services Summary page.
This figure shows the Wireless Services Summary page.
Figure 101 - Wireless Services Summary Page