I have a WLC5508 with around 70 AP's (LAP1042N) connecting over an MPLS WAN network. WLC and AP's are running 7.4.100
From time to time I have an AP which disassociates from the WLC with the logging beneath. This is a problem with the AP, or is this due to network saturation between the AP and the WLC ?
And if so, should I change the default retransmit values ?
I am having a very peculiar issue wherein an 1142 WAP is randomly disassociating and powering down due to what the Trap log is calling a "Watchdog Timer Reset." The only way I can get it back up is to power cycle the AP. Currently the AP is being powered by a Cisco Power Injector. Is this a hardware of software issue with the AP itself? From what I read about Watchdog Timers it sounds like it could be. I posted below the Trap Log output after I power cycled the AP:
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output are here
*Mar 1 01:28:21.018: %CAPWAP-5-CHANGED: CAPWAP changed state to DISCOVERY
*Mar 1 01:28:21.022: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTERRORLOG: bsnSetCurrentBHRate : fail to set
radio control and data rate
*Mar 1 01:28:21.179: %CDP_PD-2-POWER_LOW: All radios disabled - AC_ADAPTOR (00
00.0000.0000)
*Mar 1 01:28:21.984: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface GigabitEth
ernet0, changed state to up
*Mar 1 01:28:34.341: %DHCP-6-ADDRESS_ASSIGN: Interface GigabitEthernet0 assigne
d DHCP address 192.168.10.244, mask 255.255.255.0, hostname AP2c54.2d0d.c3c4
I have a WLC 5508, AIR-LAP1142N APs and a SSID for students to connect to who bring their own device. I am still testing this and it has not been rolled out but I am running into some serious issues with joining the network. I am authenticating them through a RADIUS server (2008 R2). Problem: many of them cannot connect because they are lacking the certificate.
1. What is a good setup for authentication in a BYOD environment
2. If my setup is good what can I do to allow kids to use their computers on the wireless either without the certificate (which I know is unlikely) or what do I need to have them do to connect. I am hoping it does not involve hard wiring and getting the certificate from the server.
have a Cisco 5508 controller (version 6.0.199.4) that when I enable global multicast mode it will work for an hour or two and then it will kill the network. All internet both wired and wireless, access to server everything dead. I then have to directly connect to the service port and disable the global multicast mode. Then two reasons for enabling it are Docs2Go and LanSchool both require multicast to be enabled. I have it enabled on our wired network and it works OK there. ted.
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Loading primary image (Image not found)
** Unable to read "linux.pri.img" from ide 0:2 **
Loading backup image (Image not found)
** Unable to read "linux.bak.img" from ide 0:2 **
And it is taking me to the BootMenu. I selected option 4 to Clear Configuration and the controller seems to restart the system but I still get the same error. I checked the LEDs status and Sys is Amber and Alarm is OFF which according to the documentation is a System Crash.
I am planning to upgrade WLC from 7.2.103.0 to 7.2.110.0 due to some bug, but I wanted to know if it is compatible with WCS - 7.0.240.0 and NAC Guest server version 2.1.0, I am made some search but I couldn't get to proper conclusion.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedWLC 5508 product version: 6.0.199.4
AP: AIR-LAP1142N-S-K9
The connection can reach up to 144Mbps when using WPA2 with AES (Layer 2 security), WMM allowed (QOS). But when I use 802.1X (Layer 2 security), can only reach up to 54Mbps. Any special setting when using 802.1X to reach 144Mbps? Or do I need to upgrade?
We have WLC 5508 installed in our premises to which 80 1242AG APs are connected. Few days ago, all the APs all of a sudden disconnected from Controller and rejoined after 12 to 15 hours. when we try to investigate, there was regulatory domain conflict occur. But we didn't understand that those APs were configured with the same config before. How come they got diconnected and now rejoined without changing any configration in WLC?
Logs for both AP and WLC has been attahched here.
I've got a deployment of 1142N APs using a pair of 5508 controllers running 7.3.101.0. We're in the United States and the country is set to "US". I've added the UNII-2 channels to Auto-RF on the controllers via "config advanced 802.11a channel add 100" and so forth. According to the output of "
show advanced 802.11a channel", I've enabled every 5 GHz channel that's legal for use in the US:
802.11a 5 GHz Auto-RF Channel List
Allowed Channel List......................... 36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64,100, 104,108,112,116,132,136,140, 149,153,157,161,165
My confusion comes because the automatic assignment of 5 GHz channels is heavily biased toward just a few of them, with most of the available space being ignored. Here are the 5 GHz channel assignments from a large, single-story building with 31 APs:
(qty 2) 36
(qty 6) 40
(qty 5) 44
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A total of nine channels are used (two of them only once) while twelve other channels are ignored completely. Many of these APs are close enough to hear one another, so assigning seven of them to ch. 48 makes no sense.
Looking at my campus as a whole, I've got numerous APs using channels 36, 40, 44, 48, 149, 153, 157, 161, and 165. I've got at least one each using channels 52, 56, 60, 64, 112, 116, and 132. Nothing at all is on 100, 104, 108, 136, and 140. I am using 20 MHz wide channels, between, so all are independent.
Can anyone shed light on A) why my distribution is so heavily skewed toward the first nine channels, and B) how I can learn whether certain channels are being avoided due to the presence of radar, etc, on the frequency? I'd like to take full advantage of 5 GHz by having as little channel re-use as possible.
I have a pair of WLC 5508's. I am installing 7.4.100 on them and they are properly licensed. I am looking to preconfigure these and ship them to our site. My questions are:
1) How much configuration do I need to setup on the secondary controller (ie. same SSID, interaces, ap group, etc...)?
2) Do I need to configure Mobility groups for this HA Cluster?
I have a question on Wireless AP's. We have 2 controllers, a 5508 that supports 50 AP's and a 4402 that supports 25 AP's. I have mutable AP"s but the one that I'm having a problem with is an AIR-CAP3502I-A-K9.
On the 4402 I'm running IOS AIR WLC4400-K9-7-0-230-0
On the 5508 I'm running IOS AIR-CT5500-K9-7-2-103-0
My problem is when i move a AP from the 5508 to the 4402 everything seems to work, the new IOS is downloaded to the AP and it restarts and shows up in the Wireless tab and users can hook up through it to the controller and all seems to work. The problem is that the LED light on the AO goes out once the load is finished and does not come back on. If I put it back toe the 5508, after it reloads the IOS the light comes back on and works, green or blue as the case may be. If i move it back to the 4402 it doesn't work after the load is finished.
Today my wlc 5508 crash. after trying to get access via sp. It doesn't responds. so i rebooted. in the sh tech i saw this message which i guess indicates the RC of the failure.
Start Cisco Crash Handler Serv
Sys Name: usa-5354-wlc-02
Model: AIR-CT5508-K9
Version: 7.0.98.0
[code]...
Analysis of Failure: Software was stopped by the reaper for the following reason:
Reaper Reset: Task "locpRxServerTask" missed software watchdog
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we have a working wireless network managed by a 5508 WLC and nearly a hundred AP in different buildings. We want to integrate several apple-tv in different WLAN. We enable global multicast mode and igmp snooping on the WLC. When clients connect to these wlan airplay functionnality operates for 2 or 3 minutes max and after the airplay icon disappears on iDevices. If i want airplay to work again i need to reboot the Apple-TV but again it can't work for more than 2-3 minutes.
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Is there any Bug with the new version because the setup was working fine before upgrading.
i have a wlc 5508 with code 7.0.220, with multicast enabled in it and on the lan too.I am having a bit of confusion getting bonjour to work on the wireless side. Looking at some of the cisco docs, i still have some questions on how to get it working in my specific enviroment.
I have the wlc conected to the lan via a port-channel. 2 wlan (ssid1 and ssid2) each wlan maps to a specific vlan (dynamic int), the management int (also used for dynamic ap-manager) on a third vlan (vlan x).
I need to get Bonjour working between ssid1 and vlan-x, so my wireless clients (in ssid1 can use bonjour with their laptops) can synch between wireless and wired. I know that you can do this within the same wlan (ssid) but in this case, when a user has a laptop wired into the network he cant comunicate to the wireless device. I read about Vlan Select and Multicast Optimization however, from what i understand i need to setup an interface group and just assign my wlan1 and management int to it, correct?
when or if i need a different segment (vlan y) in my lan to also "bonjour" with ssid1? For this i assume i would need to create a dynamic interface on the wlc using the same IP segment and do the a new interface group?