I have a multi-point scenario with five Cisco 1300 bridges involved.
Only one of the non-root bridges can see the root bridge so I thought it would be a good idea to set this non-root bridge up as a repeater for the other bridges to use to contact the root bridge.
My question involves the config for the non-root bridges to contact the root bridge via the repeater.
I have set the non-root bridges to use the mac address of the repeater as their parent 1 address but I cannot see any authentication activity on the parent or the repeater when the non-root bridges try to connect.
The repeater authenticates fine through the root bridge and if I change the parent 1 address on the non-root bridges to that of the root bridge, all non-root bridges authenticate fine with our Cisco ACS.
I have trolled through the Cisco site but I can only find basic information such as "setting up the bridge as a repeater" etc
I feel I should mention that I have the bridges set up in a test enviroment (large room) at the moment.
Any help greatly appreciated
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