Nortel Networks NN47250-500 Enforcing the Data Rates, Table 15: Transmit rates (continued)

Configuring APs 309
Nortel WLAN—Security Switch 2300 Series Configuration Guide
To change transmit rates for a service profile, use the following command:
set service-profile name transmit-rates {11a | 11b | 11g}
mandatory rate-list [disabled rate-list] [beacon-rate rate] [multicast-rate {rate |
auto}]
The following command sets 802.11a mandatory rates for service profile sp1 to 6 Mbps and 9 Mbps, disables
rates 48 Mbps and 54 Mbps, and changes the beacon rate to 9 Mbps:
WSS# set service-profile sp1 transmit-rates 11a mandatory 6.0,9.0 disabled 48.0,54.0
beacon-rate 9.0
success: change accepted.
Enforcing the Data Rates
By default, the rate set is not enforced, meaning that a client can associate with and transmit data to the AP
using a disabled data rate, although the AP does not transmit data back to the client at the disabled rate.
You can configure WSS Software to enforce the data rates, which means that a connecting client must transmit
at one of the mandatory or standard rates in order to associate with the AP. When data rate enforcement is
enabled, clients transmitting at the disabled rates are not allowed to associate with the AP.
Data rate enforcement is useful if you want to completely prevent clients from transmitting at disabled data
rates. For example, you can disable slower data rates so that clients transmitting at these rates do not consume
bandwidth on the channel at the expense of clients transmitting at faster rates.
Data rate enforcement is disabled by default. To enable data rate enforcement for a radio profile, use the
following command:
set radio-profile profile-name rate-enforcement mode {enable | disable}
For example, the following command enables data rate enforcement for radio profile rp1
WSS# set radio-profile rp1 rate-enforcement mode enable
multicast-rate auto for all radio types Data rate of multicast frames sent by AP
radios.
•rate—Sets the multicast rate to a
specific rate. The valid rates depend
on the radio type and are the same as
the valid rates for mandatory.
However, you cannot set the multicast
rate to a disabled rate.
•auto—Sets the multicast rate to the
highest rate that can reach all clients
connected to the AP radio.
Table 15: Transmit rates (continued)
Parameter Default Value Description