Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Nilay Shroff

Piyush Agarwal

Mohan Ram Bhadravati Ramakrishna Bhat

Narayanasami Vijayaraghavan

Shreekanthayya Hiremath

Mahesh Dantakale

Systems and methods are provided for authenticating client devices in microbranch deployment. In response to a client device connecting to a LAN AP, a first client-entry associated with the client device can be created to indicate that the client device is local to the LAN AP. An authentication request can be transmitted to a WAN AP to be forwarded to an authentication server. A second client-entry associated with the client device at the WAN AP can be created based on the authentication request. Upon successful authentication, the second client-entry can be designated as being foreign to the WAN AP based on the first client-entry being local to the LAN AP. Accordingly, data packets from the client device can be analyzed via a first firewall of the LAN AP, while bypassing a second firewall of the WAN AP based on the foreign designation of the second client-entry at the WAN AP.

Multi AP microbranch deployment configuration based on optimized packet forwarding

Systems and methods are provided for prevent network outages and improve communication effectiveness by implementing an automatic discovery method that enables the AP to act dynamically to determine its persona as a WAN AP or LAN AP. Based on the determination, the AP can receive the appropriate configuration settings in a configuration file from the central controller (e.g., Aruba central config service) for its dynamic persona. In some examples, the administrator user may define an AP identifier (e.g., MAC addresses) of the network devices in the corresponding microbranch for authentication and authorization.

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Nilay Shroff