Release Notes

Parameter Description
2.4 GHz)
Band Steering
If enabled, ARM’s band steering feature encourages
dual-band capable clients to stay on the 5GHz band on
dual-band APs. This frees up resources on the 2.4GHz
band for single band clients like VoIP phones.
Steering Mode
Band steering supports three different band steering
modes.
l Force-5GHz: When the AP is configured in force-
5GHz band steering mode, the AP will try to force
5Ghz-capable APs to use that radio band.
l Prefer-5GHz (Default): If you configure the AP to
use prefer-5GHz band steering mode, the AP will
try to steer the client to 5G band (if the client is 5G
capable) but will let the client connect on the 2.4G
band if the client persists in 2.4G association
attempts.
l Balance-bands: In this band steering mode, the AP
tries to balance the clients across the two radios in
order to best utilize the available 2.4G bandwidth.
This feature takes into account the fact that the
5Ghz band has more channels than the 2.4 Ghz
band, and that the 5Ghz channels operate in
40MHz while the 2.5Ghz band operates in 20MHz.
NOTE: Steering modes do not take effect until the
band steering feature has been enabled. The band
steering feature in ArubaOS versions 3.3.2-5.0 does
not support multiple band-steering modes. The band-
steering feature in these versions of ArubaOS
functions the same way as the default prefer-5GHz
steering mode available in ArubaOS 6.0 and later.
Dynamic Multicast Optimization (DMO)
If enabled DMO techniques will be used to reliably
transmit video data.
Dynamic Multicast Optimization (DMO) Threshold
Maximum number of high-throughput stations in a
multicast group beyond which dynamic multicast
optimization stops.
Drop Broadcast and Multicast
If enabled, the virtual AP will filter out broadcast and
multicast traffic in the air.
Convert Broadcast ARP requests to unicast If enabled, all broadcast ARP requests are converted to
unicast and sent directly to the client.
Authentication Failure Blacklist Time Time, in seconds, a client is blocked if it fails repeated
authentication. An authentication failure blacklist time
of 0 blocks failed users indefinitely.
Blacklist Time Number of seconds that a client is quarantined from
the network after being blacklisted.
Deny Inter User Traffic This option, when enabled, denies traffic between the
clients using this virtual AP profile.
The firewall comand includes an option to deny all
inter-user traffic, regardless of the Virtual AP profile
used by those clients.
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