CISCO-LWAPP-MESH-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
(LWAPP) tunnel from Light-weight  Access Points.
        
This MIB represents information used in Wireless Mesh
Network. MAP APs associates directly with RAP APs or 
with another MAP AP. Each association of AP (MAP-MAP 
or RAP-MAP) with another AP forms parent-child 
relationship. 
        
The deployment of the controller 
(referred to as CC in the diagram), mesh nodes 
(RAP and MAP) LWAPP APs, client(MS) and NMS appear 
as follows.
        
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 +  NMS  +                 +  NMS  +
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+......+     +......+     +......+           +......+
+      +     +      +     +      +           +      +
+  CC  +     +  CC  +     +  CC  +           +  CC  +
+      +     +      +     +      +           +      +
+......+     +......+     +......+           +......+
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+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+  RAP + +  RAP +     +  RAP  +     +  RAP +          +  RAP +
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
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+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+  MAP + +  MS  +     +  MAP +      +  MAP +          +  MAP +
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
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+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+.         +......+
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+  MAP + +  MAP +     +  MAP +      +  MAP +          +  MS  +
+      + +      +     +      +      +      +          +      +
+......+ +......+     +......+      +......+          +......+
        
        
        
        
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 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 them to the controller to which
it is logically connected.
        
Central Controller ( CC )
        
The central entity that terminates the LWAPP protocol
tunnel from the LWAPP APs. Throughout this MIB,
this entity is also referred to as 'controller'.
        
Mobile Station ( MS )
        
A roaming 802.11 wireless device in a wireless
network associated with an access point. Mobile Station
and client are used interchangeably. 
        
Network Management System ( NMS )
        
The station from which the administrator manages the
wired and wireless networks.
        
Mesh Node
        
A mesh node is defined as a physical or logical entity
in the mesh network participating in forming the mesh 
backhaul. RAP and MAP are two types of mesh nodes 
supported in mesh network.
        
Root AP (RAP)
        
The AP forming the bridge between a wired and a mesh
network with an Ethernet interface to the wired 
network and a 802.11 radio interface to the mesh 
network
        
Mesh AP (MAP).
        
The AP extending wireless coverage similar to a 
repeater in a mesh network and consists of a 802.11 
uplink and a 802.11 downlink. On a single-radio 
backhaul, both uplink and downlink exist on the same 
radio and are logical links only. On a multi-radio 
backhaul, they may exist on different radios.
        
Mesh Network
        
Network starting with the wireless backhaul downlink
of the RAP and all the entities below except any 
attached network to the Ethernet link of MAPs. A mesh 
network below a single RAP is also referred to as a 
'Mesh Sector'.A mesh network consists of mesh nodes. 
A single mesh network is always augmented to a single 
wired network.
        
Mesh Link
        
A logical 802.11 link between two mesh nodes. A single 
link is point-to-point. All point-to-multipoint links 
are considered as multiple mesh links. Often referred 
to as mesh backhaul link.
        
Mesh Backhaul
        
A mesh backhaul consists of mesh nodes and mesh links 
terminating at a RAP. This necessarily creates a one-
to-one relationship between a 'mesh network', 'mesh
sector' and a 'mesh backhaul' where these terms can be 
used interchangeably.
        
SNR
        
Signal to Noise ratio on the 802.11 radio.
        
Bridged network 
        
The bridged network is defined as the network(s)
attached to the Ethernet port of any MAP. There can be
multiple such networks attached to a single mesh 
network.
        
Mesh Node Roaming
        
A mesh node may change its parent mesh node naturally 
when the RF/network condition changes. Child Mesh node 
will re-associate and re-authenticate to new parent 
mesh node. Mesh Security supports two types of mesh 
node roaming.
   Intra-controller - LWAPP session is not lost.
   Inter-controller - LWAPP session is lost.
        
AMSDU
        
Aggregate MAC Service Data Unit. A structure containing 
multiple MSDUs, transported within a single (unfragmented)
or multiple (fragmented) Data MPDU.
        
IDS
        
Intrusion Detection Sysytem. A software to detect unwanted
attempts at accessing,manipulating, and or disabling of WLC.
        
        ExtendedUA
        
For 1524 APs, it has two 802.11a radios (slot1, slot2) and 
one 802.11b/g radio (slot0). This will enable the client 
access on 802.11a (slot1) for 152x series mesh access points
with two 802.11a radios, where the wireless client association 
can be done over the 802.11a radio (slot1). With this feature 
we are providing an option to enable/disable backhaul client 
on another 802.11a radio (slot2) as well. This implies that 
a 152x series mesh access points with two 802.11a radios 
can carry both backhaul traffic and 802.11a (slot1, slot2) 
client traffic over the same radios.
        
        
REFERENCE
        
[1] 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

CISCO-LWAPP-MESH-MIB

Last revised

27 Apr 2021, 00:00 UTC

Identity

ciscoLwappMeshMIB

Base OID

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.616