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A customer recently placed 10 WLCs in a mobility group and now sees a large amount of additional traffic to and from the controller. What setting should be changed to reduce the traffic?

The correct answer is A. Mobility Multicast Messaging. In a large mobility group, switching from unicast to multicast messaging reduces inter-controller traffic by replacing per-controller unicast transmissions with a single multicast transmission.

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Question

A customer recently placed 10 WLCs in a mobility group and now sees a large amount of additional traffic to and from the controller. What setting should be changed to reduce the traffic?

Options

  • AMobility Multicast Messaging
  • BMobility Unicast Messaging
  • CMobility Anchor Keep Alive Count
  • DMobility Anchor Keep Alive Interval

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    77% (36)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    13% (6)
  • D
    6% (3)

Why each option

In a large mobility group, switching from unicast to multicast messaging reduces inter-controller traffic by replacing per-controller unicast transmissions with a single multicast transmission.

AMobility Multicast MessagingCorrect

With 10 WLCs in a mobility group, unicast keepalive and state messages are sent between every pair of controllers, creating N*(N-1) flows; enabling Mobility Multicast Messaging replaces these with a single multicast stream, dramatically reducing the aggregate traffic load on the network.

BMobility Unicast Messaging

Mobility Unicast Messaging is the existing default behavior that is causing the traffic increase, not a setting that would reduce it.

CMobility Anchor Keep Alive Count

Mobility Anchor Keep Alive Count controls how many missed keepalives trigger a peer-unreachable declaration and does not reduce the overall volume of mobility group messaging traffic.

DMobility Anchor Keep Alive Interval

Mobility Anchor Keep Alive Interval controls the frequency of keepalives sent to anchor controllers, which is a different mechanism from reducing general peer-to-peer mobility group messaging overhead.

Concept tested: WLC mobility group multicast messaging traffic reduction

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/8-10/config-guide/b_cg810/mobility.html

Topics

#mobility group#multicast messaging#WLC scaling#controller traffic

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