Table of Contents
Advertisement
Usage Guidelines
Wireless LAN profiles configure WLANs in the form of virtual AP profiles. A virtual AP profile contains an SSID
profile which defines the WLAN and an AAA profile which defines the authentication for the WLAN. You can
configure and apply multiple instances of virtual AP profiles to an AP group or to an individual AP.
A named VLAN can be deleted although it is configured in a virtual AP profile. If this occurs the virtual AP profiles
becomes invalid. If the named VLAN is added back later the virtual AP becomes valid again.
Beginning with ArubaOS 6.1.3.2, the broadcast-filter arp parameter is enabled by default. Behaviors associated with
these settings are enabled upon upgrade to ArubaOS 6.1.3.2. If your controller supports clients behind a wireless
bridge or virtual clients on VMware devices, you must disable the broadcast-filter arp setting to allow those clients to
obtain an IP address. In previous releases of ArubaOS, the virtual AP profile included two unique broadcast filter
parameters; the broadcast-filter all parameter, which filtered out all broadcast and multicast traffic in the air except
DHCP response frames (these were converted to unicast frames and sent to the corresponding client) and the
broadcast-filter arp parameter, which converted broadcast ARP requests to unicast messages sent directly to the
client.
Starting with ArubaOS 6.1.3.2, the broadcast-filter arp setting includes the additional functionality of broadcast-
filter all parameter, where DHCP response frames are sent as unicast to the corresponding client. This can impact
DHCP discover/requested packets for clients behind a wireless bridge and virtual clients on VMware devices. Disable
the broadcast-filter arp setting using the wlan virtual-ap <profile> no broadcast-filter arp command to resolve this
issue and allow clients behind a wireless bridge or VMware devices to receive an IP address.
Example
The following command configures a virtual AP:
wlan virtual-ap corpnet
vlan 1
aaa-profile corpnet
Command History
Release
ArubaOS 3.0
ArubaOS 3.2
ArubaOS 3.3
ArubaOS 3.3.2
ArubaOS 3.4
ArubaOS 5.0
1518 | wlan virtual-ap
Modification
Command introduced
Support for the split tunneling option and the rap-operation parameter was introduced.
In support of the IEEE 802.11n standard, a change to the allowed-band parameter was
introduced.
Support for the ha-disc-onassoc parameter was introduced.
l
The band-steering parameter was introduced but is not a released feature in
l
ArubaOS 3.3.2. Do not use band-steering without proper guidance from Dell
technical support.
Support for the voip-proxy-arp parameter was introduced.
l
The voip-proxy-arp parameter was renamed to broadcast-filter-arp and it does not
require a Voice license.
The fast-roaming parameter was renamed to multi-association.
The decrypt-tunnel forwarding mode was introduced.
Dell PowerConnect W-Series ArubaOS 6.2 | Reference Guide
Advertisement
Table of Contents
