Cabletron Systems RoamAbout Access Point Manual page 19

Wireless Client Behavior
You can configure the wireless client to connect to a specific wireless network or the first
available wireless network.
If you configure the client to connect to a specific wireless network, the client establishes
a radio connection to the Access Point in the specified wireless network that provides the
best communications quality. Access Points in a different wireless network are ignored.
If you configure the client to connect to the first available wireless network (the Wireless
Network Name = ANY), the client establishes a radio connection to the Access Point that
provides the best communications quality. Be aware that if there are multiple wireless
networks, the client could connect to an Access Point that is not in the network you want
to join.
In either configuration, the client automatically matches the radio channel used by the
Access Point.
A wireless client configured to connect to any available network does not automatically
switch networks after it makes a connection to a wireless network; for example:
Your wireless client is configured to connect to the first available
wireless network. The first available network is called SouthSide. Once
the connection is made, you move your client out of range of SouthSide,
but in range of another wireless network called NorthSide. The wireless
client loses the connection to SouthSide but does not make the
connection to NorthSide. To connect to NorthSide, you need to restart
the client. After the restart, the wireless client connects to NorthSide
since it is the first available wireless network.
LAN-to-LAN Configuration
You can connect separate LANs over a wireless link by configuring two or more
RoamAbout Access Points to communicate with each other. This is called a LAN-to-LAN
configuration.
There are two variations of the RoamAbout LAN-to-LAN configuration:
•
Point-to-Point, using the LAN-to-LAN Endpoint Bridge mode, which connects two
wired networks.
•
Point-to-Multipoint, using the LAN-to-LAN Multipoint Bridge mode, which can
connect multiple wired networks.
LAN-to-LAN Configuration
Wireless Network Configurations 1-7