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How To Setup L3 Roaming Based Client IP Subnet

This document describes a tunneling method for wireless clients to maintain their IP subnet and prevent voice calls from dropping when roaming between hotels connected by a walkway. It involves installing data plane appliances at each hotel to tunnel client traffic back to their original subnet. When a client roams between access points registered to different hotels, their traffic will be tunneled to keep the client on their home subnet and allow voice calls to continue uninterrupted.

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How To Setup L3 Roaming Based Client IP Subnet

This document describes a tunneling method for wireless clients to maintain their IP subnet and prevent voice calls from dropping when roaming between hotels connected by a walkway. It involves installing data plane appliances at each hotel to tunnel client traffic back to their original subnet. When a client roams between access points registered to different hotels, their traffic will be tunneled to keep the client on their home subnet and allow voice calls to continue uninterrupted.

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TUNNELING BASED ON WIRELESS CLIENT IP SUBNET (AKA L3 ROAMING WITH IP)

OBJECTIVE:
In some Wi-Fi deployment of the Hotel Chains, all the Hotels are connected via a walkway tunnel. If these hotels are
under the same IT management, then the Wi-Fi coverage in the walkway is configured to use the same Open WLAN
SSID, and the AP of each Hotel will be installing in this walkway. To prevent the voice call application to drop, such as:
Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp etc… the Wireless Client IP subnet is the criteria for the Data Plane to tunnel the Wireless
Client voice call back to its original IP subnet.

TOPOLOGY:
The attached picture below shows some connected Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The 2 hotels are using in this
example are Mandalay Bay and Luxor.

To keep the example simple in this topology, there are:

 One Data Plane Appliance (model D-104 in this example) installed at Luxor Hotel. All Wireless Clients have
tunnel to D-104 will receive an IP address on subnet 10.4.5.X after the tunnel.
 One Data Plane Appliance (D-124 in this example) installed at Mandalay Hotel. All Wireless Clients have
tunnel to D-124 will receive an IP address on subnet 10.6.7.X after the tunnel.
 In this example, there are 2 adjacent Access-Points:
o One Access-Point registers to Zone “Luxor” and has GRE tunnel to D-104.
o One Access-Point registers to Zone “Mandalay Bay” and has GRE tunnel to D-124.
o These 2 Access-Points have IP 10.9.8.15 and 10.9.8.32, respectively.
 When Wireless Client with Wi-Fi voice call is roaming FROM AP-Data Plane on Luxor Hotel TO AP-Data
Plane on Mandalay Bay Hotel (or vice-versa), the voice call will not drop because the Wireless Client packet
will be tunneling back to its “home” Data Plane.
Virtual Data Plane and Data Plane Appliance

CONFIGURATION:
o Step 1: Purchase and activate the L3 Roaming license.

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o Step 2: Go to System menu, select Cluster, select L3 Roaming tab, turn ON the option “Enable L3 Roaming”.

o Step 3: Create zone Affinity profile for Luxor Hotel with one Data Plane, and another Zone Affinity profile for
Mandalay Bay hotel with different Data Plane.

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o Step 4: Select the Data Plane of Luxor Hotel and Mandalay Bay Hotel, and set the criteria values for inter-vDP
Tunneling as follow:
For Luxor
Activate = Enable.
Roaming Criteria = UE Subnet.
Create the UE subnet = 10.4.5.x
For Mandalay Bay
Activate = Enable.
Roaming Criteria = UE Subnet.
Create the UE subnet = 10.6.7.x

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Repeat the same setting step for the 2nd UE subnet.

o Step 5: Create WLAN configuration for each Zone using the same SSID, and with No Encryption

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