Multicast and broadcast transmissions within a WLAN cell cause a load on the bandwidth of the cell, especially since the WLAN clients often do not know how to handle these transmissions. The access point already intercepts a large part of the multicast and broadcast transmissions in the cell with ARP spoofing. With the restriction to unicast transmissions it filters out unnecessary IPv4 broadcasts from the requests, such as Bonjour or NetBIOS.
The suppression of multicast and broadcast transmissions is also a requirement from the HotSpot 2.0 specification.
- SNMP ID:
- 2.23.20.1.19
- Console path:
- Setup > Interfaces > WLAN > Network
- Possible values:
- No
- Yes
- Default:
- No
