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vSZ-D count number of tunnels for remote sites

Liinad — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:45:09 GMT

Hello,

I can't seem to find the answer to this. From the documents that I read a vSZ-D can support 10000 tunnels but it wasn't clear to me how to count those tunnels.

Theoretical scenario: I am using 1000 off-site APs that are broadcasting 3 SSIDs each. All trafic is being tunneled to my vSZ-D. How many tunnels would need to be created?

My understanding is that I require 1 tunnel per SSID per AP so 3x1000=3000. Is this correct and if not can someone explain to me how to count them correctly?

Re: vSZ-D count number of tunnels for remote sites

mark_pledl — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:45:30 GMT

Dear Liinad,

as far as I know it it is not one tunnel per SSID per radio. From my understanding it is only one tunnel that all traffic goes through. So it is not separated like at Aruba APs where you have 1 tunnel per radio per SSID.

But maybe I am wrong and somone from Ruckus team can correct me. But I see at my dataplaned only 1 tunnel per AP or with failover feature 2 tunnels per AP spread out over the dataplanes.

Br,

Mark.

Re: vSZ-D count number of tunnels for remote sites

albert_pierson — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:43:49 GMT

Ruckus creates one Tunnel per AP then links all WLAN's/SSID's configured for Data Plane tunneling to that single gre interface. So the count is per AP configured with tunneled WLAN's/SSID''s

Re: vSZ-D count number of tunnels for remote sites

Liinad — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:22:52 GMT

Hello Albert,

so using the example in the initial post there would be 1000 tunnels created?

Re: vSZ-D count number of tunnels for remote sites

albert_pierson — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:46:11 GMT

Hi liinad,

Yes - if you have 1000 AP's with one or more Tunneled WLAN/SSID then the DP/vDP will be terminating 1000 tunnels. It is one Tunnel per AP and Tunnel is only created when one or more WLAN/SSID are configured for rGRE (Ruckus GRE) tunnels.

I hope this answers your question.

Thanks for choosing RUCKUS products.

Re: vSZ-D count number of tunnels for remote sites

Liinad — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:05:55 GMT

Hello Albert,

Yes this answered my question, thank you very much.