Does ZoneDirector support ARP table or MAC table? Like 'show arp' or 'show
mac-address'

Question

Does ZoneDirector support ARP table or MAC table? Like 'show arp' or 'show mac-address'. If not, how it forwarding the L3 and L2 data?

michael_brado · Answer

Connected wifi clients are tagged with VLAN (if assigned) and dropped on the

AP switch, which registers the client device MAC addresses.  The connected

clients do an ARP with DHCP when they are successfully authenticated, so the

switches/routers are maintaining L2/L3 tables.

An advanced option under WLAN, is to enable Proxy ARP, whereby the AP will

respond to wired side ARP requests toward any connected wireless client.  For

WLANs tunneled to the ZoneDirector, the ZD can perform a dhcp relay.