The following text has been temporarily removed from the NAT Considerations
section because the Data IP Address message element is not defined in the
specification. I believe that we should address this in the Working Group last
call.
<t>Another issue related to having an AC behind a NAT system
is CAPWAP
support for the CAPWAP objective to allow the control and data
plane
to be separated. To support this requirement, the CAPWAP
protocol defines the Data IP Address message element, which
allows the AC to inform the WTP that the CAPWAP data frames
are to be
forwarded to a separate IP Address. This feature MUST be
disabled when
an AC is behind a NAT. However, there is no easy way to
provide some
default mechanism that satisfies both the data/control
separation and
NAT objectives, as they directly conflict with each other. As a
consequence, user intervention will be required to support such
networks.</t> |