Wireless hreap solution.

[nika.katsitadze]

Hello

My organization is planning to implement wireless solution. We will have 40 APs.

i want wireless traffic not to go through controller . Can i use hreap to accomplish this? or is there any other solution?

If i use only one controller to manage this APs, what will happen if controller breaks down? will the wireless lan continue to work without controller? or do i need second conttroler ?

Thanks in Advance

[satyendra singh]

hi,

there is no need to purchase other wlc for this you think right hreap is better option which would locly switch the wireless traffic,

thanks

satyendra

[Amjad Abdullah]

a quick answer would be, it depends on your deployment.

If users in remote offices need a radius server to authenticate to (if you use EAP/802.1x, i.e. WPA/WPA2 Enterprise) then you either need to make the traffic go to the controller OR install radius server in every remote office.
If you use something like WPA-PSK then APs can work fine if the connection to the controller lost.

This was a quick answer.

For more detailed answer I think you need to go to read the HREAP deployment guide. You'll find answers to most of your questions.

Here is the link:  http://tiny.cc/0wd4pw

HTH

Amjad

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[Sahil Mengi]

To add to this, once the control plane to WLC is lost only existing clients would continue being serviced till the time they doesnt auth timeout.

That means authentication timeout and/or session timeout will kick them off the network.

Also 40 Aps is a pretty decent sized deployment, i think you should go for a redundant controller.

Regards

Sahil