Default Configuration; Guidelines For Repeaters; Setting Up A Repeater - Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Installation And Configuration Manual

Configuring a Repeater Access Point

Default Configuration

Access points are configured as root units by default.
that control the access point's role in the wireless LAN.
Table 18-1 Default Settings for Role in Wireless LAN
Feature
Station role
Parent
Extensions

Guidelines for Repeaters

Follow these guidelines when configuring repeater access points:
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Setting Up a Repeater

Beginning in Privileged Exec mode, follow these steps to configure an access point as a repeater:
Command
Step 1
configure terminal
Step 2 interface dot11radio 0
Step 3 ssid ssid-string
Step 4 infrastructure-ssid [optional]
Step 5 exit
Step 6 station-role repeater
Step 7 dot11 extensions aironet
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Use repeaters to serve client devices that do not require high throughput. Repeaters extend the
coverage area of your wireless LAN, but they drastically reduce throughput.
Use repeaters when most if not all client devices that associate with the repeaters are Cisco Aironet
clients. Non-Cisco client devices sometimes have trouble communicating with repeater access
points.
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Table 18-1
Default Setting
Root
none
Aironet
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
Create the SSID that the repeater uses to associate to a root access
point; in the next step designate this SSID as an infrastructure
SSID. If you created an infrastructure SSID on the root access
point, create the same SSID on the repeater, also.
Designate the SSID as an infrastructure SSID. The repeater uses
this SSID to associate to the root access point. Infrastructure
devices must associate to the repeater access point using this
SSID unless you also enter the optional keyword.
Exit SSID configuration mode and return to radio interface
configuration mode.
Set the access point's role in the wireless LAN to repeater.
If Aironet extensions are disabled, enable Aironet extensions.
Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points
shows the default values for settings
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