Release Notes

Parameter Description Range Default
auth-failure-
blacklist-time
Time, in seconds, a client is
blocked if it fails repeated
authentication. A value of 0
blocks a client indefinitely.
0-
2,147,483,647
seconds
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.
— disabled
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