Watching ALL today when they were talking about the option to disable the DPI engine. Would disabling it on the APs have any effect on DPI tracking if all AP traffic is going through the router which is also tracking DPI?
Good question. WiFi DPI/traffic is ignored on the Route10, with respect to DPI/device-traffic, even if DPI is disabled on the APs.
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Can you clarify what you mean by DPI is ignored by Route10? Do APs handle WiFi DPI and then the Route10 only handles wired DPI? So if DPI is disabled for APs but enabled for Route10 what would the effect be?
To add to on @Techout’ s good question, how might the DPI filtering be expected to operate if the Route10 were installed in an existing network? Lets say, the Route10 is the only piece of Alta equipment added at the time and another vendors APs were left in place?
The Router knows which devices are WiFi, and will always ignore DPI stats from those MAC addresses. If you disable DPI for APs, but enable for Route10, you would only see DPI data for wired devices in the dashboard.
If you install a Route10 as the router, with third-party switches and APs, all traffic would be considered wired at that point (because the Route10 has no way to know what devices are WiFi), so wireless devices’ traffic would also be filtered/classified in that case.
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