How do the REAP and H-REAP modes work?
A. In the REAP mode, all the control and management traffic, which includes the authentication traffic, is tunneled back to the WLC, but all the data traffic is switched locally within the remote office LAN. When connection to the WLC is lost, all the WLANs are terminated except the first WLAN (WLAN1). All the clients that are currently associated to this WLAN are retained. In order to allow the new clients to successfully authenticate and receive service on this WLAN within the downtime, it is recommended that the authentication method for this WLAN be configured either as WEP or WPA-PSK so that authentication is done locally at the REAP. For more information about REAP deployment, refer to the REAP Deployment Guide at the Branch Office. In the H-REAP mode, an access point tunnels the control and management traffic, which includes the authentication traffic, back to the WLC. The data traffic from a WLAN is bridged locally in the remote office if the WLAN is configured with H-REAP loca
