Fortress Technologies ecure Wireless Access Bridge User Manual

Fortress Bridge: Command-Line Interface

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usage: wlanconfig wlanX create wlandev wifiX
            wlanmode [sta|adhoc|ap|monitor] [bssid | -bssid] 
[nosbeacon]
usage: wlanconfig wlanX destroy

 Wireless

Extension Tool

scripts are included in
Fortress Bridge backup
files; restore operations
therefore overwrite the
existing script with the
one in the backup file. 

Configuration changes made with the 

iwconfig

 and 

iwpriv

 

WLAN Wireless Extension Tools are held in dynamic memory 
and do not persist through reboots of the Bridge. You can, 
however, create a script of these commands that will be run as 
part of the Bridge’s bootstrap process.

When run with the write (

-w

) or append (

-a

) or arguments, the 

script

 command supplies an input line on which you can 

enter 

iwconfig

 and 

iwpriv

 commands with valid arguments.

Entering a script created with the 

-w

 argument saves the new 

script (overwriting the current script, if one exists). Entering a 
script created with the 

-a

 argument adds the new command(s) 

and argument(s) to an existing script (without overwriting it).

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Enter commands(iwpriv|iwconfig [args]) you want to run at boot time:

The 

script

 command with the 

-x

 argument executes the 

command(s) in the script.

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The 

script

 command returns no output when it successfully 

executes, but an error message will result if it fails.

Linux Wireless Extension Tools 

scripts

 commands can only 

be executed in AP (access point) mode (refer to Section 6.1.1 
for more detail).

You can view any existing script by entering the 

script

 

command without arguments.

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Linux Wireless Extension Tools are only available in AP 
(access point) mode (refer to Section 6.1.1 for more detail).

 You cannot

use the SAC func-

tion with versions of the
Fortress Bridge earlier
than 2.6.1.

When deploying a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint network 
of Fortress Bridges that will be connected through the internal 
Radio 2 interface of each Bridge, you can preconfigure the 
network nodes automatically.

When a network of Bridges has been initially deployed in this 
way, you can also use the secure automatic configuration 
(SAC) utility to effect network-wide configuration changes from 
the root Bridge, as well as to automatically configure a new 
Bridge to be added to the existing network.

The Bridges in a point-to-point/multipoint network must run the 
same Bridge software version.