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RFC 5413
Title: SLAPP: Secure Light Access Point
Protocol
Author: P. Narasimhan, D. Harkins,
S. Ponnuswamy
Status: Informational
Date: February 2010
Mailbox: partha@arubanetworks.com,
dharkins@arubanetworks.com,
subbu@arubanetworks.com
Pages: 75
Characters: 147426
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-narasimhan-ietf-slapp-01.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5413.txt
The Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)
problem statement describes a problem that needs to be
addressed before a wireless LAN (WLAN) network designer can construct
a solution composed of Wireless Termination Points (WTP) and Access
Controllers (AC) from multiple, different vendors. One of the
primary goals is to find a solution that solves the interoperability
between the two classes of devices (WTPs and ACs) that then enables
an AC from one vendor to control and manage a WTP from another.
In this document, we present a protocol that forms the common
technology-independent framework and the ability to negotiate and
add, on top of this framework, a control protocol that contains a
technology-dependent component to arrive at a complete solution. We
have also presented two such control protocols -- an 802.11 Control
protocol, and another, more generic image download protocol, in this
document.
Even though the text in this document is written to specifically address
the problem stated in RFC 3990, the solution can be applied to any problem
that has a controller (equivalent to the AC) managing one or more
network elements (equivalent to the WTP). This document defines a
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