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sessions than a neighboring 802.11b/g radio operating on channel 6, the load-balancing feature can reject association
requests to the radio on channel 1.
To balance the sessions, WSS Software rejects an association request for an access point’s radio if that radio has at least
four more active sessions than the radio of the same type with the least number of active sessions within the group. If the
rejected client associates with another access point in the same group, the session load among the access points in the
group becomes more balanced.
Load balancing is based only on association requests for new sessions. Adding an AP to a group does not affect sessions
that are already active on the access point. In addition, WSS Software does not attempt to rebalance sessions when a
client disassociates from an access point. If WSS Software rejects an association request for load-balancing reasons but
not for authentication reasons, the rejection does not count as an authentication failure.
Nortel recommends that you configure small groups and ensure that all the radios in the group provide comparable
coverage within the same service area.
(To configure a load-balancing group, see “Configuring a load-balancing group” on page 300.)