Units remain online when their WiFi Controller goes offline
FortiAP units can now remain online when their connection to the FortiGate unit’s WiFi Controller goes offline. During such an outage, WiFi clients already associated with a bridge mode FortiAP unit continue to remain connected to their SSID and can communicate with other WiFi clients. Access to other network resources; however, is suspended until the FortiGate unit is back online.
The FortiAP unit can also continue to authenticate users if the SSID meets these conditions:
• Traffic Mode is Local bridge with FortiAP’s Interface
In this mode, the FortiAP unit does not send traffic back to the wireless controller.
• Security Mode is either WPA/WPA2-Personal or Open.
These modes do not require the user database. In WPA/WPA2-Personal authentication, all clients use the same pre-shared key which is known to the FortiAP unit.
• Allow new client association when controller connection is down is enabled.
This field is available only if the other conditions have been met.