Wireless Access

Hi,

I have an aruba 620 (aos 6.4.4.6) with an ap105 configured as a campus ap.  I have the ap configured with a vap that is using vlan 103 with nat inside in tunnel mode.  Port 8 is my internet connection on vlan 255.  When I try to connect to wireless with the vap on vlan 103 i get a lot of rst and retransmissions (slow web page loads and sometime have to refresh the webpage multiple times before the page loads).  But when I change it back to use vlan 255 (same vlan as my port 8 feed) the retransmissions stop and wifi works fine.  Does anyone know why using vlan 103 with nat would cause so much bad traffic?

Does vlan 103 have other users on it?

No, it is only used for access to wireless, they get put in the authenticated role when they put in the correct wpa2 password.

Did you turn on Broadcast Filtering on that Virtual AP profile?

here is the vap basic tab configs:

vlan: 103

forward mode: tunnel

allowed band: g

band steering: unchecked

steering mode: prefer 5 ghz

dynamic multicast optimization: unchecked

drop broadcast and unknown multicast: unchecked

convert broadcast arp requests to unicast: checked

I am not seeing that specific config you are asking about... am I looking in the right place?

Drop broadcast and unknown multicast should be enabled for better performance.

Why are you restricting it to only the G band (allowed bands)?  That would ensure poor performance.

I had it originally set to the a band, since g is congested, but it had no affect so I just left it at g cause I didn't change it back to a.  So a or g band makes no difference it still has bad outcome of slow pages and resets...