Rockwell Automation 1783-WAPxxx Stratix 5100 Wireless Access Point User Manual - Manual (Page 532)

532 Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014
Chapter 20 Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points and Workgroup Bridge Mode
Beginning in Privileged Exec mode, follow these steps to enable hot standby
mode on an access point:
1. Enter global configuration mode.
configure terminal
2. Puts the access point into standby mode and specifies the MAC address of
radio on the monitored access point.
When you configure an access point with two radios to monitor a another
access point with two radios, you must enter the MAC addresses of both
the monitored 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radios. Enter the 2.4 GHz radio MAC
address first, followed by the 5 GHz radio MAC address.
The MAC address of the monitored access point can change if a BSSID on
the monitored unit is added or deleted. If you use multiple BSSIDs on
your wireless LAN, check the status of the standby unit when you add or
delete BSSIDs on the monitored access point. If necessary, reconfigure the
standby unit to use the BSSID’s new MAC address.
Hot standby is not supported on the BR1410 configured for AP mode.
iapp standby mac-address
3. Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
– The 2.4 GHz radio and the 2.4 GHz 802.11n radio is 0.
– The 5 GHz radio and the 5 GHz 802.11n radio is 1.
interface dot11radio { 0 | 1 }
4. Create the SSID that the standby access point uses to associate to the
monitored access point; in the next step designate this SSID as an
infrastructure SSID. If you created an infrastructure SSID on the
monitored access point, create the same SSID on the standby access point,
also.
ssid ssid-string
5. Designate the SSID as an infrastructure SSID. The standby uses this SSID
to associate to the monitored access point. If the standby access point takes
the place of the monitored access point, infrastructure devices must
associate to the standby access point by using this SSID unless you also
enter the optional keyword.
infrastructure-ssid [optional]
TIP To quickly duplicate the monitored access point’s settings on the standby
access point, save the monitored access point configuration and load it on the
standby access point.