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Wireless Bridge

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  • 1.  Wireless Bridge

    Posted Jun 13, 2018 07:08 PM

    Hi,

     

    We will be replacing an Apple Airport wireless bridge across a pond with 2 Aruba AP-367s. The distance is about 460 meters and I am wondering with the best forwarding mode would be for this? The controller is on one side and the remote side does not have an ISP. For now the ArubaOS version will be 4.6 and will upgrade to version 8 in the future.

     

    Thank You for any input

     

    Marc



  • 2.  RE: Wireless Bridge

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jun 14, 2018 10:42 AM

    The minimum AOS release for the AP-367 is 6.5.2.0.

     

    What are the connectivity needs at the remote site? Are they all wireless, or are there wired devices at the remote site as well?



  • 3.  RE: Wireless Bridge

    Posted Jun 14, 2018 12:03 PM

    Charlie,

     

    We will be updating to 6.5. The clients will be a few wireless laptops and one wired printer.

     

    Thank You

    Marc



  • 4.  RE: Wireless Bridge

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jun 14, 2018 01:29 PM

    You'll have add a mesh profile in order to connect the two AP-367s together. For the wired port on the remote AP-367, I would probably run that in tunnel mode so that the wired port is treated the same as the wireless users who access the remote AP. 

     

    Unless you are currently running bridge mode for your existing SSIDs on the controller, the recommendation is generally to use tunnel forwarding mode.



  • 5.  RE: Wireless Bridge

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jun 14, 2018 02:27 PM

    Hi 

     

    To clarify what Charlie said.

    Below a screenshot of a wired AP port config so that you tunnel wired traffic to the main site.

     

    Hope it helps

     

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