Technical data

Bridging Versus Tunneling

 QoS rules and firewall rules

 Dynamic Flow detection (for SIP/H.323)

 Captive Portal

 L3 mobility

 Radius-based VLAN assignment

 DHCP relay

Example of Bridged AP Deployment

The following figure is an example of remote bridged AP deployment. Notice that AP1

is configured for L2/local mode, AP2 is configured L2/Remote mode, AP3 is config-

ured L3/local mode, and AP4 is configured for L3/Remote AP mode. The controller,

AP1 and AP2 are located in the same 10.0.10.x/24 subnet, and AP3 and AP4 are in a

different subnet, 192.0.10.x/24. The blue and red lines correspond to L2 and L3 data

tunnel, respectively. Also, MS A through D are associated to AP 1 to 4, respectively.

Note that the MS C and MS D have different IP addresses, even though they are asso-

ciated to APs within the same IP subnet. The reason for this is because AP3 is config-

ured in local mode and is tunneled back to the controller at Layer 3. This example

demonstrates how a mobile client’s IP domain is changed by the dataplane bridged

or tunneled setting.

Figure 8: Example Remote AP Topology

192.0.10..x/24 Network

10.0.10..x/24 Network

AP 1

AP 4

AP 2

AP 3

MS A

10.0.10.100

MS B

10.0.10.101

MS C

10.0.10.102

MS D

192.0.10.100

MERU L2 tunnel

MERU L3 tunnel

Router