TP-Link WiFi controllers concepts - working mode

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TP-Link WiFi controllers concepts - working mode
TP-Link WiFi controllers concepts - working mode
2017-12-06 17:32:55
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Hi Fellows,

What I want to understand is the way the TP-Link controller-based wireless system handles the data plane: wether all user traffic between the AP and the controller is backhauled in some IP based (or other) tunnel to the controller and gets there in/out to/from the wired Ethernet, or wireless user traffic enters and exits directly at the access point wired connection to and from the wired Ethernet LAN? For your reference what I mean, the first is called CAP/WAP Tunnel mode and the second is called Flex-connect (formerly called H-REAP mode) mode at Cisco wireless solution.

Explanations are welcome.

Thanks, Jeno
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Re:TP-Link WiFi controllers concepts - working mode
2017-12-07 11:53:48
Wireless user traffic enters and exits directly at the access point wired connection, it is not going through the controller.
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Re:TP-Link WiFi controllers concepts - working mode
2018-01-02 19:18:30
Hi Jeno,

AFAIK, EAP Controller and EAPs use their proprietary protocol to establish management tunnel. AC Controller and CAP use CAPWAP protocol to establish management tunnel.
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Re:TP-Link WiFi controllers concepts - working mode
2018-01-02 19:26:10

Carat1 wrote

Hi Jeno,

AFAIK, EAP Controller and EAPs use their proprietary protocol to establish management tunnel. AC Controller and CAP use CAPWAP protocol to establish management tunnel.


EAP uses CAPWAP, too.
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