Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional who installs and manages Cisco Aironet 1400 Series
Bridges. To use this guide, you should have experience working with the Cisco IOS and be familiar with
the concepts and terminology of wireless local area networks.
Purpose
This guide provides the information you need to install and configure your bridge. This guide provides
procedures for using the IOS commands that have been created or changed for use with the bridge. It
does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information about these
commands, refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference for Cisco Aironet Access Points and Bridges for
this release. For information about the standard IOS Release 12.2 commands, refer to the IOS
documentation set available from the Cisco.com home page at Service and Support >
TechnicalDocuments. On the Cisco Product Documentation home page, select Release 12.2 from the
Cisco IOS Software drop-down list.
This guide also includes an overview of the bridge web-based interface, which contains all the
funtionality of the command-line interface (CLI). This guide does not provide field-level descriptions of
the web-based windows nor does it provide the procedures for configuring the bridge from the
web-based interface. For all window descriptions and procedures, refer to the bridge online help, which
is available from the Help buttons on the web-based interface pages.
Organization
This guide is organized into these chapters:
Chapter 1, "Overview,"
role in your network.
Chapter 2, "Configuring the Bridge for the First Time,"
new bridge.
Chapter 3, "Using the Web-Browser Interface,"
configure the bridge.
Chapter 4, "Using the Command-Line Interface,"
to configure the bridge.
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lists the software and hardware features of the bridge and describes the bridge's
describes how to use the web-browser interface to
describes how to use the command-line interface (CLI)
Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridges Software Configuration Guide
describes how to configure basic settings on a
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