DWL-7100AP Bridge Mode How To

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We purchased two DWL-7100AP 802.11A wireless bridges from D-link Australia to make our first 802.11A backhaul out of. In Australia these units do not have client mode available on the GUI, and we couldn't get the bridge mode to work in either point to point (PTP), or point to multi point (PTMP) mode. Eventually we were able to contact D-Link Australia , who sent us some config files for the DWL-7100AP's that made them work in bridge mode.

To put your DWL-7100AP's in Bridge mode follow these steps

1.     Download CONFIG FILE 1 and then CONFIG FILE 2

2.     Upload these config files to their respective AP, then reset it.

3.     Set your computer's IP address to 192.168.174.10, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224

4.    The AP with CONFIG FILE 1 will now have an IP address of 192.168.174.28 and the other 192.168.174.29

5.    All you have to do now is set the remote MAC addresses up for each AP - to state it as clearly as I can, each   
       access point gets the opposite AP's Mac address. You can find the access point's MAC address on the bottom
       of it's case.

6.    Don't forget to change the access point's password to prevent other people having fun with it :)

7.    The bridged Access Points bind to the MAC address, so you can set your SSID's of each unit to whatever you
       like. Note the SSID will be broadcast.

If you have any questions - contact us and as, as we are always here to help.

As an end note to this story, even after we reverse engineered the config files to see why we couldn't make it work ourselves in the first place from the GUI - we couldn't work it out. The poor documentation that D-link have about their equipment just doesn't provide enough information to users to get their gear to do what it's supposed to do.

The link has been up between two buildings mounted on rooftops for a couple of months now and it is ROCK SOLID, so in spite of the pain that we had getting thes units to work, the DWL-7100's are now doing their job very nicely indeed.