Local Switching - Samsung WEC8500 Operation Manual

5.2

Local Switching

The APC provides the local switching function to support a service to an individual
network such as a branch office. The local switching function enables an AP to be
connected to WAN for external connection in an individual network where the APC is not
installed. The control packet of an AP and a wireless terminal is processed in the
centralized APC and a general data packet is processed in an individual network.
Therefore, if the tunnel mode of the WLAN is changed to local switching, part of the data
packet forwarding process performed by the APC is performed by the AP.
The following AP functions must be configured in the WLAN which is configured for local
switching:
1) WLAN-VLAN Mapping

The wireless device traffic connected to the configured local switching WLAN is
forwarded by the AP with the configured VLAN tag.
2) ACL

Packet filtering ACL is performed for the wireless device traffic connected to the
configured local switching WLAN.
3) Preauthetication ACL of Captive Portal

Web preauthentication packet forwarding ACL is processed for the wireless device
traffic connected to the local switching WLAN configured for captive portal.
4) Split Tunnel

Forwarding LocalSwitching which is matched for Split ALC.
The functions above are activated only for the APs added to the remote AP group.
Configuration using CLI
The procedure of local switching configuration is as follows:
1) By referring to the 'Configuring Remote AP Group', add an AP to a remote AP group.
2) Enter into the configure  wlan configuration mode of CLI, and configure 'tunnel-
mode' to 'local-bridging'.
WEC8500# configure terminal
WEC8500/configure# wlan 1
WEC8500/configure/wlan 1# tunnel-mode local-bridging

tunnel-mode local-bridging
3) Enter into the configure  AP configuration mode of CLI, and configure a local Vlan
ID per WLAN.
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