D-Link DWL-2600AP User Manual - page 647

Configuring the Wireless Distribution System

D-Link

Unified Wired and Wireless Access System 

Oct. 2015

Page 647

D-Link UWS User Manual

When you click 

Add

 from the WDS Managed AP Summary page, the page refreshes and displays fields to 

configure the WDS Managed AP settings.

Figure 405:  WDS Managed AP Settings

The following table shows the fields available to configure the WDS Managed APs that are members of the 

group selected on the previous page.

Note: 

If no APs have been added to the selected WDS group, only the 

Add

 and 

Refresh

 buttons 

display.

Note: 

After you change WDS-Managed AP group settings, make sure you push the configuration to 

other switches in the cluster. 

Table 371:  WDS Managed AP Configuration - Add AP

Field

Description

Valid AP MAC 

Address

Lists the MAC address of each AP configured in the local Valid AP database. If the AP to 

add is in the database, select its MAC address from the menu to populate the WDS AP 

MAC Address field. The AP does not need to be in the Valid AP database to add it to the 

WDS group. 

Hardware Type

Select the hardware type for the AP. The hardware type is determined, in part, by the 

number of radios the AP supports (single or dual) and the IEEE 802.11 modes that the 

radio supports (a/b/g or a/b/g/n). 

WDS AP MAC 

Address

MAC Address of the AP to add to the WDS-managed group. If the AP is not in the Valid 

AP database, clear the field (if necessary) and enter the MAC address of the AP to add.

 Priority

Spanning Tree Priority for this AP. The  priority is used only when spanning tree mode 

is enabled.

The  priority determines which AP is selected as the root of the spanning tree and which 

AP has preference over another AP when multiple equal cost paths exist in the 

topology. The lower value for the spanning tree priority means that the AP is more likely 

to be used for bridging data into the campus network. You should assign a lower priority 

to the APs connected to the wired network than to the satellite APs.

The  priority value is rounded down to a multiple of 4096. The range is 0

  – 61440, and 

the default value is 36864.