5
Management Mode
5.1 Overview
This chapter discusses using the NWA in management mode. This screen determines whether the NWA is used in its default standalone mode, or as part of a Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) network.
5.2 About CAPWAP
The NWA supports CAPWAP. This is ZyXEL’s implementation of the IETF’s CAPWAP protocol (RFC 4118).
The CAPWAP dataflow is protected by Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS).
The following figure illustrates a CAPWAP wireless network. You (U) configure the controller AP (C), which then automatically updates the configurations of the managed APs (M1 ~ M4).
Figure 56 CAPWAP Network Example
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