Specifications

CHAPTER

4-1

Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Manager Configuration Guide

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Wireless LAN Controller Management:

Configuring Wireless Out-of-Band Deployment

This chapter describes how to configure Cisco NAC Appliance for Wireless Out-of-Band (Wireless

OOB) deployment. Topics include:

• Overview, page 4-1

• Wireless Out-of-Band Virtual Gateway Deployment, page 4-5

• Configure Your Network for Wireless Out-of-Band, page 4-7

• Configure Your Wireless LAN Controllers, page 4-7

• Configure Wireless LAN Controller Connection on the CAM, page 4-13

• Wireless Out-of-Band Users, page 4-27

See Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Server Configuration Guide, Release 4.9(x) for additional

information on OOB deployments.

Overview

In a traditional In-Band Cisco NAC Appliance wireless deployment, all network traffic to or from

wireless client machines passes through the Clean Access Server (CAS). For high throughput or highly

routed environments, a Cisco NAC Appliance Wireless Out-of-Band (Wireless OOB) deployment allows

client traffic to pass through the network only in order to be authenticated and certified before being

connected directly to the access network.

Wireless Out-of-Band can be configured in the following deployments:

• Layer 2 Virtual Gateway

• Layer 2 Real IP

• Layer 3 Real IP

Note Cisco NAC Appliance Release 4.8(1) and earlier versions support only Layer 2 Virtual Gateway

deployment. All the above deployments are supported by Cisco NAC Appliance Release 4.8(2) and later.