All traffic routing via AC

[MattGibson_UK]

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me, It seems that all traffic gets routed via the AC can this be disabled?

I think this is slowing down the traffic on the Wireless, I have no idea where to start so any help would be appreciated...

Regards

Matt

[3comold]

You probably will have to configure the local forwarding feature on the AC.

This is accomplished by activating the client forwarding mode in the wireless LAN service template (client forwarding-mode local vlan <vlan_id), for example for wireless service template:
wlan service-template 1 clear

Then you must create a local forwarding for the APs, for example:

wlan ap <AP_name> model <AP_model>
serial-id <AP_serial-number>
radio <Radio_number>
service-template 1
radio enable

// Then you run map-configuration command on the AC to map the apcfg.txt file to the wireless AP
map-configuration apcfg.txt

// After this, the AC will associate the AP and issue to it the file "apcfg.txt" for its configuration

In the AP flash you will find the file "apcfg.txt" that the AP will be using for its configuration. If not you can load it to it manually.

Kind regards

[MattGibson_UK]

Brilliant thanks,

I've found the option, or though I can't physically see any improvements as of yet. Is this the normal procedure of the traffic routed via the AC?

[3comold]

Thank you!
Yes this is the normal procedure; unless things have changed.

The local forwarding feature of wireless access controllers allows data exchange among wireless clients to be accomplished on APs. In a centralized WLAN architecture, the APs transparently transmit the data packets of clients to the ACs, which process the packets centrally. As the clients’ data transmission rate increases, the forwarding workload of the ACs keeps increasing. With local forwarding enabled, the APs forward client data traffic directly, and the ACs no longer participate in data traffic forwarding, which effectively reduces the workload of the ACs.

The aspects such as security and management keep going to the ACs using the CAPWAP tunnel.

Thanks again, and,
Kind regards