Configuring Advanced Settings for a Wireless Interface

To configure advanced settings for a wireless interface

1. In the Edit Interface dialog, click Advanced. The options you see depend on the platform of the appliance.

   

2. For the AppFlow feature, select Enable flow reporting to allow flow reporting on flows created for this interface. This option is selected by default.
3. Optionally, select Enable Multicast Support to allow multicast reception on this interface. This option is not selected by default.

4. Optionally, select Enable Default 802.1p CoS to tag information passing through this interface with 802.1p priority information for Quality of Service (QoS) management. This option is not selected by default.

   This option is available only for VLAN interfaces.

   Packets sent through this interface are tagged with VLAN id=0 and carry 802.1p priority information. To make use of this priority information, devices connected to this interface should support priority frames. QoS management is controlled by access rules on Policies | Rules and Policies > Access Rules.

5. Optionally, to exclude the interface from Route Advertisement, select Exclude from Route Advertisement (NSM, OSPF, BGP, RIP). This option is not selected by default.

6. Optionally, select Management Traffic Only to restrict traffic to only SonicWall management traffic and routing protocols. This option is not selected by default.

7. Optionally, if you have enabled DNS Proxy, the Enable DNS Proxy option displays. To enable DNS Proxy on the interface, select the option. This option is not selected by default.
8. Optionally, enable Asymmetric Route Support on the interface by selecting Enable Asymmetric Route Support. If enabled, the traffic initialized from this interface supports asymmetric routes, that is, the initial packet or response packet can pass through from other interfaces. This option is not selected by default. For more information about asymmetric routing, see Asymmetric Routing In Cluster Configurations.
9. Select Enable Gratuitous ARP Forwarding Towards WAN to forward gratuitous ARP packets received on this interface toward the WAN, using the hardware MAC address of the WAN interface as the source MAC address.
10. Select Enable Automatic Gratuitous ARP Generation Towards WAN to automatically send gratuitous ARP packets toward the WAN whenever a new entry is added to the ARP table for a new machine on this interface. The hardware MAC address of the WAN interface is used as the source MAC address of the ARP packet.

11. To specify the largest packet size (MTU – maximum transmission unit) that the interface can forward without fragmenting the packet, enter the size of the packets that the port receives and transmits in the Interface MTU field:

    Standard packets (default)	1500
    Jumbo frame packets	9000

12. If configuring routed mode for this interface, go to Configuring Routed Mode.
13. If bandwidth management has been enabled, to configure BWM for this interface, go to Enabling Bandwidth Management on an Interface.
14. Click OK.