Only if you force the bssid in there. Leave it blank or all 0's and it'll not matter.
Where you would normally use this is if you have multiple ap's with the same essid and clients could see more than one well enough to associate with it. That help? marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Ireton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: [smartBridges] High reliabillity issues for smartbridge > Howdy - > > So if I deploy smartbridges in my network and then someday I have > to replace an access point, as far as I can see, _all_ smartbridge > customers are going to go down and stay down until we can come and > reconfigure their smartbridge. This is due to it's reliance on the bssid > of the access point, which I don't directly have control over as it's > based on that AP's mac address. So an AP failure is no longer a 1 or 2 > hour outage proposal, now it's a 3 or 4 day long ordeal as we work > overtime running all over hells creations reconfiguring end stations. Is > there any way to fix the AirBridge so this horror story never has to > happen? > > ` Secondly, I've discovered an interesting bug. Using a cisco 350 > access point, if I have an airbridge and a wet11 associated, if I enable > rts/cts, the AirBridge malfunctions and begins dropping frames while the > wet11 just keeps chunking along as if nothing happened. Why is this? > > Thirdly, I hate it's stupid IP stack. It can't use it's default > gateway, which means that if you talk to the device, you have to have an > ip address in the same range as the device, which in my network is almost > impossible to do (clients are on public nets and radios/infrasturcture > equipment is on private ip's). Is this problem scheduled for a fix anytime > soon? I would love to begin polling these devices via snmp and charting > their stats. > > > Thanks. > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
