Solutions Tech Lab

In this technote we’ll cover a useful solution for small retail stores/remote sites that need 1-2 APs and require active-passive Ethernet uplink. Note that you can run IAP-VPN on top of this solution which is not covered here. This solution uses the new feature in Instant 8.8.x that basically supports use of multiple Ethernet uplinks. This solution will also cover the second IAP as a mesh point using the dual uplinks of the Mesh portal IAP.

The main points for this solution are:

• One Ethernet port will be the active uplink port while the other Ethernet port will be backup uplink port.
• Only DHCP based IP address on the uplinks are supported.
• Failover and pre-emption features are enabled by default when multiple Ethernet uplink is configured.
• This is only configurable using CLI
• This is only supported for standalone mode or 1 Conductor mesh portal + mesh points in the swarm and NOT supported on a cluster of more than 1x AP.

Here is the lab set-up to demonstrate this feature with/without mesh point AP.