User's Guide

AirTight Management Console Configuration
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Manage Network Interface Profiles
A network interface profile represents the tunnel through which network traffic from the configured SSIDs
can be routed to a remote endpoint. The remote endpoint then reroutes this traffic to their respective path
or destination. A network interface profile is used to configure Ethernet over GRE (EoGRE)
settings. Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) is a tunneling protocol that can encapsulate a variety of
network layer protocols inside virtual point-to-point links over an IP internetwork. EoGRE provides the
ability to setup one or more tunnels from the access point to an aggregating device. Traffic from one or
multiple SSIDs can be channeled through such tunnels. Multiple such tunnels can be configured.
When you configure network interface profiles, you can specify a primary endpoint and a secondary
endpoint. The wireless traffic is bridged to the secondary endpoint if the primary endpoint fails. The
secondary endpoint is optional and is functional only if you enable a secondary endpoint and configure
the host name and local endpoint VLAN for the secondary endpoint.
The secondary endpoint checks for the availability of the primary endpoint and transfers control to the
primary endpoint once it is up and running.
A network interface profile must be attached to an SSID profile when you enable remote bridging on the
SSID profile.
Add Network Interface Profile
To add a network interface profile, do the following.
1.
Go to Configuration>Device Configuration>Network Interfaces.
2. Enter the values for the network interface profile fields.
Field Description
Profile
Name
Name of the network interface profile. It can have a maximum length of
260 bytes.
Tunnel
Type
Select Tunnel Type as Ethernet over GRE.
Basic Parameters (or Primary Endpoint Parameters)