https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/RUCKUS-Self-Help/Why-WPA-WPA2-WLANs-dont-work-when-the-Zone-Director-is-offline/m-p/46085#M50 <P>WPA/WPA2-based authentication does not work when the Zone director is offline.</P><P>Clients are unable to connect to the wireless when the zone director is offline.</P><P>This is expected behavior.</P><P>In “ZD-managed mode”, APs need a centralized controller to provision the configurations. All configurations are stored in the controller. This mode requires all APs to run the LWAPP protocol to negotiate with the controller. There is a shortcoming of this kind of design that is, when APs are disconnected from the centralized controller, APs will not provide service until they reconnect to the centralized controller again.</P><P>The solution/workaround here is to enable one or multiple WLAN's with the Autonomous mode.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="cecil_dsilvia_0-1660926729611.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2956iCD5701F0871F092E/image-size/medium/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="cecil_dsilvia_0-1660926729611.png" alt="cecil_dsilvia_0-1660926729611.png" /></span></P><P>No advanced features of the Zone Director like 802.1x / Captive portal / MAC authentication / DPSK&nbsp; can be used as these features are powered by the controller.</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:23:11 GMT cecil_dsilvia 2022-12-22T15:23:11Z https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/RUCKUS-Self-Help/Why-WPA-WPA2-WLANs-dont-work-when-the-Zone-Director-is-offline/m-p/46085#M50 <P>WPA/WPA2-based authentication does not work when the Zone director is offline.</P><P>Clients are unable to connect to the wireless when the zone director is offline.</P><P>This is expected behavior.</P><P>In “ZD-managed mode”, APs need a centralized controller to provision the configurations. All configurations are stored in the controller. This mode requires all APs to run the LWAPP protocol to negotiate with the controller. There is a shortcoming of this kind of design that is, when APs are disconnected from the centralized controller, APs will not provide service until they reconnect to the centralized controller again.</P><P>The solution/workaround here is to enable one or multiple WLAN's with the Autonomous mode.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="cecil_dsilvia_0-1660926729611.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2956iCD5701F0871F092E/image-size/medium/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="cecil_dsilvia_0-1660926729611.png" alt="cecil_dsilvia_0-1660926729611.png" /></span></P><P>No advanced features of the Zone Director like 802.1x / Captive portal / MAC authentication / DPSK&nbsp; can be used as these features are powered by the controller.</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:23:11 GMT https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/RUCKUS-Self-Help/Why-WPA-WPA2-WLANs-dont-work-when-the-Zone-Director-is-offline/m-p/46085#M50 cecil_dsilvia 2022-12-22T15:23:11Z