Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points

Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points , CAPWAP for short , is a software protocol for controlling and setting up base stations ( Access Points ) for wireless computer networks ( WLAN ). The purpose is the central management of several related devices of this type, for example in company networks. The CAPWAP protocol is defined in RFC 5415 and RFC 5416 ; it is based on the Lightweight Access Point Protocol . The UDP ports 5246 are used as the control channel and 5247 as the data channel.

So far, CAPWAP has not caught on in practice. In company networks, WLAN devices from a specific manufacturer are generally used so that proprietary protocols or protocol extensions are used.

Cisco , LANCOM , Zyxel, Aerohive , Fortinet and Mikrotik use CAPWAP for communication between access point and controller.

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↑ Calhoun (ed.): Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol Specification . IETF . March 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
↑ Computer magazine c't , issue 7/2015, p. 122 f .: There is a standard protocol with CAPWAP for communication between controller and AP (...), but company-specific specialties in the APs can only be handled via the in-house controller use.

[1] Calhoun (ed.): Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol Specification . IETF . March 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2016.

[2] Computer magazine c't , issue 7/2015, p. 122 f .: There is a standard protocol with CAPWAP for communication between controller and AP (...), but company-specific specialties in the APs can only be handled via the in-house controller use.