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NWA3550 User’s Guide
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Management Mode
This chapter discusses the MGNT MODE (Management Mode) screen. This screen
determines whether the ZyXEL Device is used in its default, standalone mode, or as part of a
CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points) network.
4.1 About CAPWAP
The ZyXEL Device supports CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access
Points). This is ZyXEL’s implementation of the IETF’s (Internet Engineering Task Force)
CAPWAP protocol (RFC 4118).
The CAPWAP dataflow is protected by DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security).
The following figure illustrates a CAPWAP wireless network. You (U) configure the AP
controller (C), which then automatically updates the configurations of the managed APs (M1
~ M4).
Figure 12 CAPWAP Network Example
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The ZyXEL Device can be a standalone AP (default) or a CAPWAP managed
AP. It cannot be a CAPWAP AP controller.
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C M1 M2 M3 M4
DHCP SERVER