User's Manual

Remote AP
Operation
Setting
Forward Mode Setting
all bridge split-tunnel tunnel decrypt-tunnel
all Management
frames on the AP.
Frames are
bridged between
wired and
wireless
interfaces.
No frames are
tunneled to the
controller.
Station acquires
its IP address
locally from an
external DHCP
server.
Management
frames on the AP.
Frames are either
GRE tunneled to
the controller to a
trusted tunnel or
NATed and
bridged on the
wired interface
according to user
role and session
ACL.
Typically, the
station obtains an
IP address from a
VLAN on the
controller.
Typically, the AP
has ACLs that
forward
corporate traffic
through the
tunnel and source
NAT the non-
corporate traffic
to the Internet.
Frames are GRE
tunneled to the
controller to an
untrusted tunnel.
100% of station
frames are
tunneled to the
controller.
Management
frames on the
AP.
Frames are
always GRE
tunneled to
controller.
always ESSID is always
up when the AP
is up
regardless of
whether the
controller is
reachable.
Supports PSK
ESSID only.
SSID
configuration
stored in flash
on AP.
Provides an SSID
that is always
available for local
access.
Not supported Not supported Not supported
all bridge split-tunnel tunnel
Table 123: Remote AP Modes of Operation and Behavior
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