Quatech ABDB-ET Series User Manual
Initial Configuration
100-8007-141G AirborneDirect™
Ethernet Bridge User's Guide
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Quatech, Inc. Confidential
The Link LED turns green when 802.11 association completes. However, if the 802.1x
authentication fails, the bridge becomes disassociated by the AP and the Link LED goes
back to flashing red.
back to flashing red.
The bridge will not respond to discovery requests.
Once the bridge is authenticated, additional impacts include:
Roaming
A bridge configured for WPA-PSK can only roam to APs that have WPA-PSK enabled in
the same ESS.
A bridge configured for LEAP can only roam to APs that support LEAP, roaming, and are
connected to the same RADIUS server.
the same ESS.
A bridge configured for LEAP can only roam to APs that support LEAP, roaming, and are
connected to the same RADIUS server.
Data Throughput and Latency
Round trip latency may increase and overall throughput may decrease, due to the
additional steps to encrypt or decrypt data.
additional steps to encrypt or decrypt data.
Re-Keying
The session key may expire and the authentication process will be executed again
causing streaming data to stop until a new key is authorized.
causing streaming data to stop until a new key is authorized.