CAPWAP

• The Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points protocol is a standard interoperable networking protocol that enables a central WLC to manage a collection of Wireless Access Points
  • Built upon and replaced the older Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP)

1. Communications are encrypted inside a DTLS CAPWAP tunnel
   1. It uses UDP ports 5246 and 5247

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OSI or TCP/IP Layer

CCNA Exam Topic

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