Using SM Traffic Isolation to prevent SM peer-to-peer traffic

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The AP's SM Traffic Isolation network configuration parameter is a mechanism to allow or prevent peer-to-peer traffic between SMs registered to the same AP.  This parameter provides two modes of operation - Disabled and Enabled.

For this example, we will assume that SM1 and SM2 are both registered to the same AP.

When SM Traffic Isolation is set to Disabled (default), all Unicast, Broadcast, and Multicast traffic is allowed between SM1 and SM2 (both registered to the same AP).

When SM Traffic Isolation is set to Enabled, the AP will drop all Unicast, Broadcast, and Multicst packets, thereby disallowing peer-to-peer communication between SM1 and SM2 (both registered to the same AP).  

This parameter may be modified via the ePMP web management GUI, by SNMPv2c or by cnMaestro.  

SNMP SM Traffic Isolation OID Details:

Name

MIB

OID

Syntax

wirelessStaIsolate

CAMBIUM-PMP80211-MIB

.1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.21.3.8.2.40

INTEGER32(0|1)
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why would you want to enable or disable this option?

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I got one case that we needed now to ENABLE this feature.

Our Force 300-13L version were not picking up the customers making roaming among Access Points under the SMs, then we changed this option and it now is working ok.

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