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Parameter Description
When a virtual AP is configured to use bridge forwarding mode, most data traffic
stays local to the AP, and the controller is not able to convert that broadcast
traffic.
Beginning with ArubaOS 6.1.3.2, this parameter is enabled by default. Behaviors
associated with these settings are enabled upon upgrade to ArubaOS 6.1.3.2. If
your controller supports clients behind a wireless bridge or virtual clients on
VMware devices, you must disable this setting to allow those clients to obtain an IP
address. In previous releases of ArubaOS, the virtual AP profile included two
unique broadcast filter parameters; the drop broadcast and multicast
parameter, which filtered out all broadcast and multicast traffic in the air except
DHCP response frames (these were converted to unicast frames and sent to the
corresponding client) and the conert ARP requests to unicast parameter, which
converted broadcast ARP requests to unicast messages sent directly to the client.
Starting with ArubaOS 6.1.3.2, the Convert Broadcast ARP requests to unicast
setting includes the additional functionality of broadcast-filter all parameter,
where DHCP response frames are sent as unicast to the corresponding client.
This can impact DHCP discover/requested packets for clients behind a wireless
bridge and virtual clients on VMware devices. Disable this option to resolve this
issue and allow clients behind a wireless bridge or VMware devices to receive an
IP address.
Default: Enabled
Advanced Configuration Settings
Cellular Handoff
Assist
When both the client match and the cellular handoff assist features are enabled,
the cellular handoff assist feature can help a dual-mode, 3G/4G-capable Wi-Fi
device such as an iPhone, iPad or Android client at the end of a Wi-Fi network
switch from Wi-Fi to an alternate 3G/4G radio that provides better network access.
Dynamic Multicast
Optimization (DMO)
Threshold
Maximum number of high-throughput stations in a multicast group beyond which
dynamic multicast optimization stops.
Range: 2-255 stations
Default: 6 stations.
Blacklist Time Number of seconds that a client is quarantined from the network after being
blacklisted. Default: 3600 seconds (1 hour)
Authentication
Failure Blacklist
Time
Time, in seconds, a client is blocked if it fails repeated authentication. The default
setting is 3600 seconds (1 hour). A value of 0 blocks the client indefinitely.
Deny inter user
traffic
Select this check box to deny traffic between the clients using this virtual AP
profile.
The global firewall shown the Configuration>Advanced Services > Stateful
Firewall > Global window also includes an option to deny all inter-user traffic,
regardless of the Virtual AP profile used by those clients.
Table 90: Virtual AP Profile Parameters