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RAP over unstable network

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  • 1.  RAP over unstable network

    Posted Apr 12, 2018 06:23 AM

    I recently installed RAP at a new office and unfroutantely the internet connection is not great. Doing a "show crypto isakmp sa" shows connections and hour or two old..

    I believe this is the cause of the headache experienced by users, so i did some tweaking to the config with "rap-operation persistent".

    Results are it works well when theres an outage, but when the data path comes back, it drops the network for around 10 seconds, then a further 4 seconds.

    THe test was by simply pinging 8.8.8.8

    Nothing facy with the setup, it is a simple bridge mode setup.

    Example config below - 

    aaa profile "rap-default-dot1x-psk"
    initial-role "default-iap-user-role"
    mac-default-role "logon"
    authentication-dot1x "default-psk"
    !
    wlan virtual-ap "test-rap"
    aaa-profile "rap-default-dot1x-psk"
    ssid-profile "test"
    forward-mode bridge
    !
    wlan ssid-profile "test"
    essid "test"
    opmode wpa2-psk-aes
    a-basic-rates 12 24
    a-tx-rates 12 24 36 48 54
    g-basic-rates 12 24
    g-tx-rates 12 18 24 36 48 54
    wmm
    wmm-vo-dscp "46"
    wmm-vi-dscp "40"
    wmm-be-dscp "24"
    wmm-bk-dscp "8"
    local-probe-req-thresh 10
    wpa-passphrase ########
    max-tx-fail 3000
    mcast-rate-opt
    g-beacon-rate 24
    a-beacon-rate 24
    !
    ap-group "Office"
    virtual-ap "test-rap"

     

    Is futher tweaking possible to minimise outage to end users?

     



  • 2.  RE: RAP over unstable network
    Best Answer

    Posted Apr 26, 2018 08:32 PM

    Fixed this issue.

    Basically applied the following - 

     

    ap system-profile "rap"
     bootstrap-threshold 30
    !
    ap-group "Office"
     ap-system-profile "rap"


  • 3.  RE: RAP over unstable network

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Apr 27, 2018 08:25 AM

    By default a RAPs bootstrap threshold *should be* 30 regardless of what is in the ap system profile.