Alternate Tunnel Encapsulation for Data Frames in CAPWAP
draft-zhang-opsawg-capwap-cds-03
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| Authors | Rong Zhang , Zehn Cao , DENG Hui , Rajesh Pazhyannur , Sri Gundavelli , Li Xue | ||
| Last updated | 2014-03-05 | ||
| Replaced by | draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-alt-tunnel | ||
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Abstract
CAPWAP defines a specification to encapsulate a station's data frames between the Wireless Transmission Point (WTP) and Access Controller (AC) using CAPWAP. Specifically, the station's IEEE 802.11 data frames can be either locally bridged or tunneled to the AC. When tunneled, a CAPWAP data channel is used for tunneling. In many deployments it is desirable to encapsulate date frames to an entity different from the AC for example to an Access Router (AR). Further, it may also be desirable to use different tunnel encapsulations to carry the stations' data frames. This document provides a specification for this and refers to it as Alternate tunnel encapsulation. The Alternate tunnel encapsulation allows 1) the WTP to tunnel non-management data frames to an endpoint different from the AC and 2) the WTP to tunnel using one of many known encapsulation types such as IP-IP, IP-GRE, CAPWAP. The WTP may advertise support for Alternate tunnel encapsulation during the discovery or join process and AC may select one of the supported Alternate Tunnel encapsulation types while configuring the WTP.
Authors
Rong Zhang
Zehn Cao
DENG Hui
Rajesh Pazhyannur
Sri Gundavelli
Li Xue
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