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Select Add to create the WLAN, or click Save to finish reconfiguring an existing WLAN. The WLAN appears on
the WLANs page in the navigation pane.
Remote AP Operation Standard Define the rights for remote APs in this WLAN. Options are as follows:
 standard
 persistent
 backup
 always
Remote APs connect to a controller using Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol and Internet
Protocol Security (L2TP/IPSec). AP control and 802.11 data traffic are carried through
this tunnel. Secure Remote Access Point Service extends the corporate office to the
remote site. Remote users can use the same features as corporate office users.
Secure Remote Access Point Service can also be used to secure control traffic
between an AP and the controller in a corporate environment. In this case, both the
AP and controller are in the company’s private address space.
Drop Broadcast and
Multicast
No Specify whether the WLAN should drop broadcast and multicast mesh network
advertising on the WLAN.
Convert Broadcast ARP
Requests to Unicast
No Specify whether ARP table information should be distributed in broadcast (default) or
unicast fashion.
Deny Inter User Traffic No If enabled, this setting disables traffic between all untrusted users. You can configure
user role policies that prevent Layer-3 traffic between users or networks but this does
not block Layer-2 traffic. Requires a minimum version of 6.1.0.0.
Band Steering No Enable or disable band steering on the WLAN. Band steering reduces co-channel
interference and increases available bandwidth for dual-band clients, because there
are more channels on the 5GHz band than on the 2.4GHz band. Dual-band 802.11n-
capable clients may see even greater bandwidth improvements, because the band
steering feature will automatically select between 40 MHz or 20 MHz channels in
802.11n networks. This feature is disabled by default, and must be enabled in a Virtual
AP profile.
Steering Mode Prefer-5GHz Band steering supports three different band steering modes.
 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.
 Prefer-5GHz (Default): If you configure the AP to use prefer-5GHz band steering
mode, the AP will try to steer the client to 5GHz band (if the client is 5GHz
capable) but will let the client connect on the 2.4G band if the client persists in
2.4G association attempts.
 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 40 MHz while the 2.4GHz
band operates in 20MHz.
NOTE: Steering modes do not take effect until the band steering feature has been
enabled.
Dynamic Multicast
Optimization (DMO)
No If enabled, DMO techniques will be used to reliably transmit video data.
Dynamic Multicast
Optimization (DMO)
Threshold (2-255)
6 Maximum number of high-throughput stations in a multicast group beyond which
dynamic multicast optimization stops.
Table 7 WLANs > Advanced Page Fields (Continued)
Field Default Description