Wireless bridge

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A wireless bridge is used for connecting two or more network segments separated physically^[1], operating on the 802.11 standard^[2]. Wireless bridges usually work only in pairs or more, and can be used in two types of implementations. They are point to point link (PtP Link), or point to multi point (PtMP Links)^[3].

In point to point link, there is a pair of two bridges that are used for connecting only two network segments, whereas in a point to multi point bridge, one bridge is installed as root bridge, and many non-root bridges attach to this root bridge. Now, in this fashion, if one non-root network segment wants to pass data to the other non-root segment, it passes it through the root bridge.

For setting up bridges, all the bridges must be set on the same service set identifier (SSID), radio channel and WEP, or other authentication mechanism if implemented.