Motorola MiNT Protocol What is it?

MiNT (Medium Independent Network Transport) protocol is a protocol made only from Motorola,
operating in all the AP and the controller from Motorola and enables communication, such as
security, QoS, roaming between them.
In addition, the protocol, which makes it possible to find the most optimal forwarding path to the
network element.

The main function of MiNT protocol used primarily between a Wireless Controller and Access Point
is a device discovery (device discovery) for the adoption and management of the Access
Point. MiNT is to find a neighbor between the device regardless of whether the devices are L2 and
L3, connected to how to provide a mechanism to exchange packets with each other.

Protocol and Port

Layer-2 MiNT uses Ethernet II frames with ether-type 0x8783
Layer-3 MiNT uses IP packets with UDP port 24576

MINT LINKS
can be connected via a VLAN on (VLAN on which the Access Point) or IP (Wireless Controller to
the remote Access Point).
While adoption is automatically generated using the MLCP (MiNT Link Creation
Protocol) between the Wireless Controller and Access Point. They can be directly manually created
between the Access Point and Wireless Controller between, or Access Point. MiNT manually create
links between the Wireless Controller while you configure the cluster. All MiNT are automatically
linked by default.
it can be provisioned on the MLCP clients 189/191 via DHCP options to determine the MiNT
create links for the discovery and adoption of the controller AP.
Remote MiNT IP network links are needed to communicate with the Wireless Controller aware of
the link. Level-2 MiNT links are for adaptive AP to remotely deploy (deployment) and
management. Through the Level-2 MiNT link and Access Point are only aware of the Wireless
Controller, the other AP will not be recognized. Level-2 MiNT also provides links to the provisioning
of the Access Point is deployed in a variety of remote sites.