Capwap Mailing List: Re: CAPWAP IESG Review Comment T3

[Romascanu, Dan (Dan) (dromasca]

OK with me. 

Dan
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Calhoun (pacalhou) [mailto:pcalhoun [at] cisco.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:06 PM
> To: capwap [at] frascone.com
> Subject: [Capwap] CAPWAP IESG Review Comment T3
> 
> All,
> 
> Here is the IESG Review Comment:
> 
>    T3 - Section 2 - 'Protocol Overview' describes the process 
> of discovery and 
>    provisioning exchange between the AC and WTP. This seems 
> to be different than the 
>    pre-provisioning phase described in Section 12.5.
>    Please clarify and bring this two sections in synch. Also 
> be more clear what 
>    parameters are being provisioned in the provisioning 
> exchanged described here. 
> 
> I think the simplest thing to do is to add a single sentence 
> stating that pre-provisioning is required and a pointer to 
> the appropriate
> section:
> 
> <text>
> 2.  Protocol Overview
> [...]
> 
>    The CAPWAP Protocol begins with a discovery phase.  The WTPs send a
>    Discovery Request message, causing any Access Controller (AC)
>    receiving the message to respond with a Discovery Response message.
>    From the Discovery Response messages received, a WTP selects an AC
>    with which to establish a secure DTLS session.  In order to
>    establish the secure DTLS connection, the WTP will need some amount
>    of pre-provisioning, which is specified in section 12.5. CAPWAP
>    protocol messages will be fragmented to the maximum length
>    discovered to be supported by the network.
> </text>
> 
> PatC
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