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Enabling channel automatic switch

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  • 1.  Enabling channel automatic switch

    Posted Jun 10, 2016 04:19 AM
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    Hi,

     

    We have a "basic" solution based on Power Connect 3600 with Aruba 6.4 and several AP 105.

    All APs seem to "listen" on the default 11 channel, wich is frequently used by others foreign APs.

     

    When using show ap monitor ap-list ap-name AP we can see different foreign access point that seem to interfer with Aruba APs.

     

    d0:ae:ec:70:9c:45  Livebox-4774   11    interfering  80211b/g-HT-20  disable  57886/57886  0/0      wpa-psk-tkip    0      7        7         87        88         1      no    0
    54:22:f8:0c:aa:9c  Livebox-AA9C   11    interfering  80211b/g-HT-20  disable  57885/57885  0/0      wpa-psk-tkip    0      8        9         86        86         0      no    0
    18:64:72:6d:74:04  TEST           1     valid        80211b/g-HT-20  disable  20181/588    15/0     wpa2-psk-aes    0      13       12        82        83         0      no    0

     

    or see attachement.

     

     

    Is there any automatic system enabled to switch between channels ?

    How can we check that the channel "choice" is optimal ?

     

    BR,



  • 2.  RE: Enabling channel automatic switch

    EMPLOYEE


  • 3.  RE: Enabling channel automatic switch

    Posted Jun 10, 2016 06:10 AM

    Thanks for this doc.

    It seems that all of the default configuration is already "doing the job", i was just seeking where could be the channel threshold that could trigger a channel switch.

     

    ARM seems to be correctly default configured, but we have already seen a "full" channel activity without any switch.

     

    Amybe a loadbalancing pb ?



  • 4.  RE: Enabling channel automatic switch

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jun 10, 2016 07:00 AM
    In the ARM profile, I would try unchecking "client aware". If client aware is checked, the access point will not change channel if there is active client activity on them.