Subject: RE: [Capwap] Question on the Blacklist on LWAPP

From: "Pat Calhoun (pacalhou)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:00:45 -0700

My apologies for not responding earlier.

The WTP only needs to keep track of the blacklist if it is operating in
Local MAC mode. For split MAC, all blacklist enforcement can be done on
the AC. The policies by which a MAC address is added to a blacklist is
outside the scope of the document.

Pat Calhoun
CTO, Wireless Networking Business Unit
Cisco Systems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Richard Gwee
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:20 AM
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> Subject: [Capwap] Question on the Blacklist on LWAPP
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I will like to ask a question regarding the Add Blacklist 
> Entry. From my understanding on the LWAPP IETF draft, every 
> WTP should kept a copy of the blacklist of MAC addresses that 
> it should not provide service to. I will like to know the 
> criteria on which a MAC address is being blacklisted.
>  
> Is the blacklist mechanism used mainly to keep out rogue MAC 
> addresses or mainly to blacklist MAC addresses that have 
> failed to respond during discovery phase? In the event that 
> if an AC is down due to power shutdown etc, how will this 
> blacklist be updated?
>  
> Appreciate some enlightenment. 
>  
> Thanks and regards
> Richard Gwee
> 
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