Sometimes we want to distribute wireless traffic between wireless access point or frequency bands in a better way to be more efficiently.
Type of load balancing:
Access Point Hand-off (switch to another AP)
Frequency Hand-off (switch to the lesser-used frequency)
Explain how to configure wireless client load Balancing.
Not to explain theory in wireless
Confiuration from web-based
Go Wifi & switch controller > Wifi Networks > FortiAP Propfiles > Edit the profile that you want
And click on
Select Frequency handoff or AP handoff or both for the radio that you want.
Example:
Confiuration from CLI
To configure from CLI follow the example:
Handoff-rssi: Enter the minimum RSSI value for handoff (default 25)
Handoff-sta-thresh: Enter the threshold value for AP handoff. (default 30)
frequency-handoff: Enable or disable handoff of clients to other channels (default disable)
Ap-handoff: Enable or disable handoff of clients to other APs. (default disable)
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