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RAP vx CAP in private WAN topology

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  • 1.  RAP vx CAP in private WAN topology

    Posted Feb 03, 2016 10:14 PM

    Hi,

    i'm currently  maintaining my customer wireless network designed by previous vendor.

    they deployed around 50 RAPs (no CAP at all) both layer 2 and layer 3 in private WAN deployment with split-tunneling.

     

    i understand that this is not an ideal deployment where RAP are supposed to be deployed in public WAN.

     

    what i want to asked is what the differences between local-bridge CAP and split-tunnel RAP in case of controller down and how the data being bridged? (since there is no public wan traffic, is there any use of the split tunnel?)



  • 2.  RE: RAP vx CAP in private WAN topology

    Posted Feb 03, 2016 10:41 PM

    https://arubanetworkskb.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/HowTo/R-1326

    The only advantage of using split-tunnel is if the user needs to access local resources at that site that doesn't need to traverse the WAN. 



  • 3.  RE: RAP vx CAP in private WAN topology

    Posted Feb 03, 2016 10:56 PM

    Hi Victor,

    thanks for the answer.

    so it's safe to say i can convert the split-tunnel RAP to locally bridge CAP without any difference in my case?



  • 4.  RE: RAP vx CAP in private WAN topology
    Best Answer

    Posted Feb 03, 2016 11:07 PM
    In order for the campus AP to support bridge mode you need to enable CPSec
    Control Plane Security.
    And if you don;t have it enable , all your APs will need to reboot.
    http://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS_60/UserGuide/control_plane.php


  • 5.  RE: RAP vx CAP in private WAN topology

    Posted Feb 03, 2016 11:12 PM

    yes, i already had the CPsec enabled.

    thanks for the answer.