Intermec 6710 - Manual (Page 103)

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Configuration
6710 Access Point User’s Guide 4-37
Setting Description
Disabled
(default)
No special action is taken when an ARP is
received. Multicast ARP requests are
subject to the Ethernet filters and the flood-
ing settings. The Disabled setting is useful
when a system has no IP radio traffic or has
stations that do not register IP addresses.
No Flooding ARP server converts ARPs from multicast to
the unicast address of the destination sta-
tion. No Flooding is the most efficient con-
figuration, since multicast ARPs are never
forwarded. Use of this setting requires sta-
tions to register IP addresses with the access
point. Use No Flooding or Disabled if wire-
less stations do not need to respond to ARPs.
Delay Flooding ARP server converts ARPs from multicast to
the unicast address of the destination sta-
tion. If the destination address is unknown,
the initial ARP request is not forwarded. If
the requesting device retries the ARP
request, second and subsequent ARP re-
quests are forwarded. ARP requests from
wireless stations are flooded inbound.
Delay Flooding is the preferred option when
wireless stations should respond to ARPs,
but are not capable of registering their IP
addresses with the access point.
Normal Flooding ARP server converts ARPs from multicast to
the unicast address of destination station. If
the destination address is unknown, the
ARP request is flooded according to the mul-
ticast flood level settings. ARP requests
from wireless stations are flooded inbound.
Normal Flooding is useful when wireless
stations need to respond to ARP requests,
but are not capable of registering IP address-
es with the access point. Normal Flooding
sends more unnecessary ARPs over wireless
links then delay flooding. Normal Flooding
does not introduce occasional delays in ARP
responses as Delay Flooding does.