Nodes Available Node Map Ip Allocation WDS

WDS is a wireless bridging system that allows as accesspoint to also act as a client to a nearby AP which also has WDS enabled, thus allowing traffic to bounce and continue on. Only requirement is both aps HAVE to be on the same channel.

WDS does however reduce bandwidth by half, however there are other ideas to hopefully get around this: 1, run a 5Ghz accesspoint bridged with your WDS node. 2, decrease beacons to 1 time per second increasing bandwidth by approx 15%. WDS has some downfalls but it's advantages overcrosses the downfalls and the downfalls can be worked around to some extent.

WDS connections can either be routed or bridged... depending upon the nature of the installation and location and other equipment also located there as well as power and type of antenna a determination can be made of the viability of either bridging or routing the connection.

In hostap under linux you must have a station firmware greater or equal to 1.5.0 in order for hostap to not use hte bogus WDS frame (i.e. talk to every other WDS system out there). You can check your version by typing: <code> hostap_diag wlan0 </code> at the command prompt.