Reference Guide

1217 | wlan virtual-ap Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 6.0 Command Line Interface | Reference Guide
Syntax
Parameter Description Range Default
<profile>
Name of this instance of the profile. The name must be 1-63
characters.
— “default”
aaa-profile
Name of the AAA profile that applies to this virtual AP. — “default”
allowed-band
The band(s) on which to use the virtual AP:
a—802.11a band only (5 GHz)
g—802.11b/g band only (2.4 GHz)
all—both 802.11a and 802.11b/g bands
(5 GHz and 2.4 GHz)
a/g/all all
auth-failure-
blacklist-time
Time, in seconds, a client is blocked if it fails repeated
authentication. 0 blocks indefinitely.
0
band-steering
ARM’s band steering feature can encourage or require
dual-band capable clients to stay on the 5GHz band on
dual-band APs. This frees up resources on the 2.4GHz band
for single band clients like VoIP phones.
Band steering reduces co-channel interference and
increases available bandwidth for dual-band clients,
because there are more channels on the 5GHz band than on
the 2.4GHz band. Dual-band 802.11n-capable clients may
see even greater bandwidth improvements, because the
band steering feature will automatically select between
40MHz or 20MHz channels in 802.11n networks. This feature
is disabled by default, and must be enabled in a Virtual AP
profile.
The band steering feature supports three steering modes,
which can be configured via the
steering-mode
parameter:
Band steering can be configured on both campus APs and
remote APs that have a virtual AP profile set to tunnel,
decrypt-tunnel, split-tunnel or bridge forwarding mode.
Note, however, that if a campus or remote APs has virtual
AP profiles configured in bridge or split-tunnel forwarding
mode but no virtual AP in tunnel mode, those APs will
gather information about 5G-capable clients independently
and will not exchange this information with other APs that
also have bridge or split-tunnel virtual APs only.
The Band Steering feature will not work unless the you use
the enable the "Local Probe Response" parameter in the
Wireless LAN SSID profile for the SSID that requires band
steering. You can enable the local probe response
parameter using the CLI command wlan ssid-profile
<profile> local-probe-response.
—disabled
blacklist
Enables detection of denial of service (DoS) attacks, such
as ping or SYN floods, that are not spoofed deauth attacks.
— enabled
blacklist-time
Number of seconds that a client is quarantined from the
network after being blacklisted.
3600
seconds (1
hour)
broadcast-filter
Filter out broadcast and multicast traffic in the air. — disabled