Remote Site Survivability (Rss); Adaptive Mesh Support - Motorola AP-7131 Product Reference Manual

10.1.10 Remote Site Survivability (RSS)

RSS can be used to turn off RF activity on an AAP if it loses adoption (connection) to the switch.
RSS State
RSS Enabled
RSS Disabled
NOTE For a dependant AAP, independent WLANs continue to beacon for three

10.1.11 Adaptive Mesh Support

An AAP can extend existing mesh functionality to a switch managed network. All mesh APs are
configured and managed through the wireless switch. APs without a wired connection form a mesh
backhaul to a repeater or a wired mesh node and then get adopted to the switch. Mesh nodes with
existing wired access get adopted to the switch like a wired AAP.
Mesh AAPs apply configuration changes 300 seconds after the last received switch configuration
message. When the configuration is applied on the Mesh AAP, the radios shutdown and re-initialize
(this process takes less than 2 seconds), forcing associated MUs to be deauthenticated and the Mesh
link will go down. MUs are able to quickly associate, but the Mesh link will need to be re-established
before MUs can pass traffic. This typically takes about 90 to 180 seconds depending on the size of
the mesh topology.
NOTE When mesh is used with AAPs, the "ap-timeout" value needs to be set to
For an overview of mesh networking and how to configure an AP-7131 to support mesh, see
Configuring Mesh Networking on page
Independent WLANs
WLAN continues beaconing
WLAN stops beaconing
days in the absence of a switch.
a higher value (for example, 180 seconds) so Mesh AAPs remain adopted
to the switch during the period when the configuration is applied and
mesh links are re-established.
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Extended WLANs
WLAN continues beaconing but AP does allow
clients to associate on that WLAN
WLAN stops beaconing
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