[c-nsp] Cisco Aironet interoperability with others "WDS"???

[Kristofer Sigurdsson]

Brian Feeny, Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 11:28:37PM -0600 :
> Alot of wireless vendors have whats called WDS (Wireless Distribution 
> System), which is a way of making a relay/repeater across wireless.  
> Cisco has something called "WDS" but its a different technology which I 
> am not concerned with here.
> 
> I have used WDS (The relay/repeater technology) with 
> Linksys/Netgear/Apple.  I have not been able to get this to work 
> talking to Cisco Aironet 350 AP's however (12.2 IOS).  I setup a ssid 
> as "infrastructure", but not sure if there is anything else special to 
> do for this.  With a Cisco I think it thinks of WDS endpoints as just 
> repeaters.......and I don't believe there is anything special to do 
> there.

I'd also be interested in knowing more about this, also, is there any
way to get an Aironet 1200 to advertise more than one SSID at a time?

If I use the "guest-mode" command in SSID configuration mode for an SSID
which is not advertised at that moment, it is simply removed from the
SSID config of the advertised SSID and to the one I'm configuring, effectively
changing which SSID is advertised.

Nowadays, clients don't configure their laptops for the correct SSID, they
simply choose an SSID from a list - which means there really can only be
one "active" SSID at any given moment on the Aironet 1200.

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