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9800 WLC Broadcast Suppression

akwatson
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On the 9800 IOS-XE controller platform, is there a way to enable broadcast suppression when larger client subnet ranges for wireless client associations such as larger /22 or /21 networks associated with specific WLAN's? I do see where there is a feature to enable proxy arp which seems to help reduce unnecessary broadcast traffic to improve overall wireless communications. I am curious if this is the only feature available on the 9800 platform to help reduce broadcast, and if anyone has implemented this and how the results were?  

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Rich R
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ARP proxy is the recommended best practice configuration.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/c9800-best-practices.html#AddressResolutionProtocolARPproxy

Broadcast forwarding is generally disabled by default.  More info and links at https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/broadcast-forwarding-wlc-9800/td-p/4167367

And the config guide:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/17-12/config-guide/b_wl_17_12_cg/m-vewlc-multicast-cg.html#config-wireless-broadcast-gui

Arp broadcast is one option available in 

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