Q: Why do we see Ethernet ports in controller BSS table?
A: Phy type showing from below outputs E1 and E2 are Wired port of AP (Secure Jack) .
Aruba AP BSS Table
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bss ess port ip phy type ch/EIRP/max-EIRP cur-cl ap name in-t(s) tot-t mtu acl-state acl fm
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04:bd:88:7c:xx:xx TAC-Wireless-Setup N/A 172.24.38.111 g-HT ap 1/9/22.5 0 ap-tac-238 0 3d:10h:59m:53s 1500 - 68 T
04:bd:88:c9:xx:xx N/A 0/0/0 172.24.35.111 e1 N/A N/A N/A ap-tac-873 0 3d:21h:43m:32s 1500 N/A 67 T
00:0b:86:ee:xx:xx N/A 0/0/0 172.24.38.166 e3 N/A N/A N/A ap-tac-415 0 3d:10h:53m:57s 1500 N/A 67 T
1.The bss table is actually a tunnel table. In this case, we consider e1, e2, e3, etc as tunnel interfaces.
2. Both wifi and enet state is maintained by STM process. So CLI output shows whatever data is available in the same output format.