Technical data

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Enable Multicast From the Web UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Enable Multicast with the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
View Mapping Between VLANs and ESS Profiles . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bridging with AirFortress and AppleTalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
FortressTech Layer 2 Bridging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
AppleTalk Layer 2 Bridging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
GRE ESSID Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Band Steering Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Configure Band Steering with the Web UI . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Configure Band Steering with the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Expedited Forward Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Steps to configure Expedited Forward Override . . . . . . . . . 80
SSID Broadcast for Vport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Configuration of SSID Broadcast for Vport . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Multiple ESSID Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Bridged AP300 in a Remote Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Configure Bridged Mode with the Web UI . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Configure Bridged Mode with the CLI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Utilizing Multiple IPs on a Single MAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 6 Implementing Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Redundant Ethernet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Configure Redundant Ethernet Failover With the CLI . . . . . . . . 91
Recovering From Redundant Ethernet Failover . . . . . . . . . . 91
N+1 Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
N+1 with Non-Revertive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Preparing the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Configuring the N+1 Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Starting N+1 on Master Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Configuring N+1 on the Slave Controller . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Monitoring the N+1 Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Managing the N+1 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Enabling Non-Revertive mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Scheduling revert on Active slave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Cancel the Schedule Revert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Reverting the Active Slave to Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Changing the WTR Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Disabling and Deleting N+1 Master Controllers . . . . . . . . . 102
Stopping N+1 Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Replacing a Master Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Working with N+1 Syslog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Recovering From N+1 Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Recovering From N+1 with Dual Ethernet Failover . . . . . . . . . 105
Option 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
AP Aware Redundancy using DHCP Option 43 . . . . . . . . . . . 106
AP Aware Redundancy using DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107