AIRESPACE-SWITCHING-MIB

        This MIB is intended to be implemented on all those
devices operating as Central Controllers (CC) that
terminate the Light Weight Access Point Protocol
tunnel from Light-weight LWAPP Access Points.
        
This MIB provides configuration, statistics and 
status information about the controller. 
This includes controller statistics and provides 
information such as Inventory, Trap logs, memory and 
CPU. This MIB also provides configuration of CLI, 
SNMP, LAG, DHCP, Spanning Tree, etc. 
        
The relationship between controller and the LWAPP APs
can be depicted as follows:
        
+......+     +......+     +......+           +......+
+      +     +      +     +      +           +      +
+  CC  +     +  CC  +     +  CC  +           +  CC  +
+      +     +      +     +      +           +      +
+......+     +......+     +......+           +......+
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+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+  AP  + +  AP  +     +  AP  +      +  AP  +          +  AP  +
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
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+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+  MN  + +  MN  +     +  MN  +      +  MN  +          +  MN  +
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
        
        
The LWAPP tunnel exists between the controller and
the APs.  The MNs communicate with the APs through
the protocol defined by the 802.11 standard.
        
LWAPP APs, upon bootup, discover and join one of the
controllers and the controller pushes the configuration,
that includes the WLAN parameters, to the LWAPP APs.
The APs then encapsulate all the 802.11 frames from
wireless clients inside LWAPP frames and forward
the LWAPP frames to the controller.
        
                   GLOSSARY
        
Access Point ( AP )
        
An entity that contains an 802.11 medium access
control ( MAC ) and physical layer ( PHY ) interface
and provides access to the distribution services via
the wireless medium for associated clients.  
        
LWAPP APs encapsulate all the 802.11 frames in
LWAPP frames and sends it to the controller to which
it is logically connected.
        
Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID)
        
The identifier for the service set comprising of
all the 802.11 stations under the control of
one coordinating Access Point.  This identifier
happens to be the MAC address of the dot11 radio
interface of the Access Point.  The wireless
clients that associate with the Access Point
get the wired uplink through this particular 
dot11 interface. 
        
Central Controller ( CC )
        
The central entity that terminates the LWAPP protocol
tunnel from the LWAPP APs.  Throughout this MIB,
this entity also referred to as 'controller'. 
        
Light Weight Access Point Protocol ( LWAPP ) 
        
This is a generic protocol that defines the 
communication between the Access Points and the
Central Controller. 
        
Mobile Node ( MN )
        
A roaming 802.11 wireless device in a wireless
network associated with an access point. 
        
Station Management (SMT)
        
This term refers to the internal management of the
802.11 protocol operations by the AP to work
cooperatively with the other APs and 802.11
devices in the network.
        
REFERENCE
        
[1] Part 11 Wireless LAN Medium Access Control ( MAC )
and Physical Layer ( PHY ) Specifications.
        
[2] Draft-obara-capwap-lwapp-00.txt, IETF Light 
Weight Access Point Protocol. 
    

Source file

AIRESPACE-SWITCHING-MIB

Last revised

10 Apr 2006, 00:00 UTC

Identity

bsnSwitching

Base OID

1.3.6.1.4.1.14179.1