WiNG AP adoption over PON network

[leoslav]

hi,

Does anybody had experience any MiNT communication issue behind a PON network?
Our customer is implementing a Passive LAN solution (Enterprise) and wants to have WiNG APs connected at their ONTs. 

We found that those ONTs are unable to handle MiNT Level-1 traffic between RFD APs - Level 2 communication between RFDM & Controller is ok (Layer 3)

Any clue? Any workaround?

PON vendor is working to solve broadcast & level-1 behavion inside PON environment. 

We are seeking for workaround solution to have the APs adopted.

Cheers,

Leonardo

[ckelly]

Great feedback, leoslav!

That’s excellent news.  Glad you were able to get that patch and have it working now.

[leoslav · Accepted solution]

hi all, 

Just to close this thread: PON vendor has issued a patch to allow packet forwarding for MINT/MLCP.

We guided them to use Ether-type 0x8783 (Layer-2 packets) or UDP 24576 (Layer-3 packets) as triggers to match as MINT flow.

After that, we had successful MINT L1 neighbor formation, MINT links & adoption.

Smart-RF and another features based on MINT/MLCP also are working successfully.

[leoslav]

Perfect, as we are looking forward. PON vendor is investigating to find out a solution to allow 0x8783 traffic in layer-2 perspective.

I'm looking forward a "Plan-B" in case they are not able to find out a solution to allow Level-1 & MLCP traffic…

Yes, all APs has IP addresses & connectivity to the controller (customer has a VX9000)

Tks 🙂

[ckelly]

So, you’re level-2 MINT frames are going to be IP based.  Level-1 MINT is possibly layer-2...which is where the need for allowing ether-type 0x8783 traffic comes in.

All APs have an IP address on a common management interface?

And yes, since it sounds like you’re setup with a Distributed topology with multiple RF-Domains (not controller managed) then you need MINT level-1 communications to work between the APs within an RFDomain….otherwise things won’t work so well. 🙂