270 CHAPTER 11: CONFIGURING RF LOAD B ALANCING FOR MAPSSetting Strictness forRF Load BalancingTo perform RF load balancing, MSS makes MAP radios with heavy clientloads less visible to new clients, causing them to associate with MAPradios that have a lighter load.You can optionally specify how strictly MSS attempts to keep the clientload balanced across the MAP radios in the load-balancing group. Whenlow strictness is specified (the default), MSS makes heavily loaded MAPradios less visible in order to steer clients to less-busy MAP radios, butensures that even if all the MAP radios in the group are heavily loaded,clients are not denied service.At the other end of the spectrum, when maximum strictness is specified,if a MAP radio has reached its maximum client load, MSS makes itinvisible to new clients, causing them to attempt to connect to otherMAP radios. In the event that all the MAP radios in the group havereached their maximum client load, then no new clients would be able toconnect to the network.To specify how strictly MSS attempts to keep the client load balancedacross the MAP radios in a load-balancing group, use the followingcommand:set load-balancing strictness {low | med | high | max} When the low option is set, no clients are denied service. New clientscan be steered to other MAPs, but only to the extent that service canbe provided to all clients. This is the default. When the med option is set, overloaded radios steer new clients toother MAPs more strictly than the low option. Clients attemptingto connect to overloaded radios may be delayed several seconds. When the high option is set, overloaded radios steer new clients toother MAPs more strictly than the med option. Clients attemptingto connect to overloaded radios may be delayed up to a minute. When the max option is set, RF load balancing is strictly enforced.That is, overloaded radios do not respond to new clients at all. Aclient would not be able to connect during times that all of thedetectable MAP radios are overloaded.
