A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Operations and Management Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Alternate Tunnel Encapsulation for Data Frames in CAPWAP Authors : Rong Zhang Zhen Cao Hui Deng Rajesh S. Pazhyannur Sri Gundavelli Li Xue Filename : draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-alt-tunnel-00.txt Pages : 11 Date : 2014-05-05 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. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-alt-tunnel/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsawg-capwap-alt-tunnel-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt