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Field
Deny Inter User Traffic
Band Steering
Steering Mode
Dynamic Multicast
Optimization (DMO)
Dynamic Multicast
Optimization (DMO)
Threshold (2-255)
Preserve Client VLAN
Disable conversion of
IPv6 multicast Router
Advertisements to
unicast
Select Add to create the WLAN, or click Save to finish reconfiguring an existing WLAN. The WLAN appears on
the WLANs page in the Dell PowerConnect W Configuration navigation pane.
Profiles
Understanding Dell PowerConnect W Configuration Profiles
In ArubaOS, related configuration parameters are grouped into a profile that you can apply as needed to an AP
group or to individual APs. This section lists each category of AP profiles that you can configure and then apply to
an AP group or to an individual AP. Note that some profiles reference other profiles. For example, a virtual AP
profile references SSID and AAA profiles, while an AAA profile can reference an 802.1x authentication profile and
server group.
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Default
No
No
Prefer-5ghz
No
6
No
No
Description
If enabled, this setting disables traffic between all untrusted users. You can configure
user role policies that prevent Layer-3 traffic between users or networks but this does
not block Layer-2 traffic. Requires a minimum version of 6.1.0.0.
Enable or disable band steering on the WLAN. Band steering reduces co-channel
interference and increases available bandwidth for dual-band clients, because there
are more channels on the 5GHz band than on the 2.4GHz band. Dual-band 802.11n-
capable clients may see even greater bandwidth improvements, because the band
steering feature will automatically select between 40MHz or 20MHz channels in
802.11n networks. This feature is disabled by default, and must be enabled in a Virtual
AP profile.
Band steering supports three different band steering modes.
Force-5GHz: When the AP is configured in force-5GHz band steering mode, the
AP will try to force 5GHz-capable APs to use that radio band.
Prefer-5GHz (Default): If you configure the AP to use prefer-5GHz band steering
mode, the AP will try to steer the client to 5G band (if the client is 5G capable) but
will let the client connect on the 2.4G band if the client persists in 2.4G association
attempts.
Balance-bands: In this band steering mode, the AP tries to balance the clients
across the two radios in order to best utilize the available 2.4G bandwidth. This
feature takes into account the fact that the 5GHz band has more channels than
the 2.4 GHz band, and that the 5GHz channels operate in 40MHz while the 2.5GHz
band operates in 20MHz.
NOTE: Steering modes do not take effect until the band steering feature has been
enabled. The band steering feature in ArubaOS versions 3.3.2-5.0 does not support
multiple band-steering modes. The band-steering feature in these versions of
ArubaOS functions the same way as the default prefer-5GHz steering mode available
in ArubaOS 6.0 and later.
If enabled, DMO techniques will be used to reliably transmit video data.
Maximum number of high-throughput stations in a multicast group beyond which
dynamic multicast optimization stops.
Whether to preserve the client VLAN. Requires version between 3.4.4.3 and 5.0.0.0, or
version 6.1.0.0 and above.
Enable or disable converting advertised IPv6 multicast routers to unicast to reduce
unnecessary traffic. Firmware version 6.1.2.0 is required.
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