Cisco Wireless :: Additional Configuration On 5508 WLC For Laptop / Voice Roaming
Jun 26, 2012
Is there any additional configuration to be done on the 5508 WLC for Wireless Laptop / Voice Roaming? I tested with Wireless IP Phone and found some blankness in voice , whereas i have other access point nearby , which wasn't switching over easily .
I have an issue where I have an AP in one room and another in another.When I walk from one room to the other, I lose signal but manages to see the SSID and join.But, I cannot seem to surf the Internet, I have to manually disconnect and reconnect. Normal wireless routers I reconnect seamlessly without any manual disconnect & reconnect.Currently using cisco 5508 and ap2600.
Currently have a 5508 in the lab and testing 4 AP's with it. Eventually there will be 18 AP's spread thru out different floor in our building.
So far access is working fine using WPA, 802.1x and the client configured to use windows logon credentials..But it doesn't seem to automatically transfer between access points.
I am having some troubles with client roaming on a 5508 controller running firmware 7.3.101.0. As soon as a client roams outside the range of an AP they lose data flow and do not seem to transition to another AP for about 1 minute.This is a small network with 6 x AIRCAP3502E-N-K9 AP's (running in H-REAP mode) on the same floor and clients are a mix of HP notebooks, Mac Books, iMacs, iPads and iPhones. There are several seperate SSID's setup and the problem occurs on all. All are WPA2/AES with either a PSK or 802.1X. Both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios are enabled with auto power and channel selection.
I have tried changing the roaming settings from default and also playing with the AP power settings to no avail.Is this normal behaviour or is there something I can do to improve the reconnection speed?
I have two 5508, no anchor, only one SSID with internal web authentication using radius server.Under "Configuring Mobility Groups", Cisco guide says: "If a client roams in web authentication state, the client is considered as a new client on another controller instead of considering it as a mobile client".
I understand that if a client that has already autheticated via web roams between two LAPs that are associated with different WLCs, it has to reathenticate.
I am running a WiFi network built on Cisco 1262 APs and Cisco WLC 5508. My APs broadcast two SSIDs, let call them "WiFi_Pay" and "WiFi_Free". I have a problem: when users migrate from "WiFi_Pay" to "WiFi_Free" (not moving, connecting to the same AP), the connection fails. If they try for second time, it is always successful. My task is to ensure that such migrations run smoothly and be successful from the first attempt.
Since two months they work full time with the new Dutch Electronic Patient Dossier.We installed 3 Cisco 5508 controllers, version 7.0.230.0 last year on a HP-switched network on a layer 2 mobility domain.Cisco 1041 AP are
The personnel works woth thin clients url... The one with the double antenna.This client has a Broadcom BCM943228HM4L 802.11 a.b.g.n (2x2) adapter.
On the client they have a connected RDP session to a server with the documents.Now they are walking from one patient to another patient. The problem they experience is a very late roaming. At the beginning of the corridor, the client will associate, but is going to roam at the end of the corridor. We installed 4 AP's on each corridor, so they signal is very well, maybe to well?
I disabled client loadbalancing and band select.The lowest data rates are also disabled. Mandatory begins at 12 Mbps. I can increase this to 18 Mbps.These clients work with PSK, with both methods (WPA-TKIP and WPA2-AES) enabled.We did this because of many old and new clients.
The customer tried to find out the problem with a smartphone, same issue. Very late roaming.I can upgrade the WLC to 7.0.240.0. The only problem I have is the WCS. When upgrading to 7.2 and higher I need to have NCS.
at the moment we are using as default the manager interface as ap-manager interface.
Now I have to change the IP. I would like to change that very smooth with all our locations. My question, is it possible to add a ap-manager interface with a new vlan and IP Range, so that I can move the AP's to the second interface as as soon as it is planed with the location. Sometimes in special cases we have hard coded the WLC IP oder we just need to change the DHCP option but this needs to be planed and I see problem to do that in a hard cut.
I have studied many guides but I can't find out if there is a down-side to setting the timeout this high.Could it result in slow roaming or re-authentication if there is a connection error? The customer have large areas with high client density and some outdoor areas with low client density.
I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to configure in one site a wireless setup that goes like this:
One WLC (5508), multiple LAP's in H-REAP mode.
AP's will be splitted in multiple VLAN's belonging to different departments but with the same SSID.Each VLAN will have it's own DHCP scope. All AP's are located in the same site and I need to know if it is possible to roam between AP's that belong to different departments?
I´m trying to find the best configuration to improve the roaming in a WLC 7.3I changed the power threshold under the TPC to -67 and in the client roaming I put in custom mode and the minimun RSSI in -78 dBm.but I was wondering if there is a specific configuration to improve the roaming.
I have two 5508 controllers configured with an internal dhcp scope. The scopes on each controller are a /22. I need to expand the scope to provide more addresses. Is there an easy way to add a second dhcp scope without making changes to the existing scope? If so how will the clients devices be able to access that ip address range?
So we have a Cisco 5508 controller that is managing 15 AP's in one of our buildings.I am running 2 wlans, one is internal access via (wpa) radius, peap and domain login...that works well now
The other is a guest lan, that is only allowed to surf the web.
The question from our security group, is there a way to restrict wireless access to ONLY a corporate approved list of devices.
As it stands right now, we only support Blackberry's as our mobility device. All local data is encrypted. The issue here is our testing shows that with an Iphone (not approved) it is very easy to connect to the WPA network if a user knows how to enter in their domain credentials. From there they can browse our internal web servers and download corporate data to a non approved, non encrypted device such as the iphone.
I have WLC 5508 in my office and i am asked to backup file configuration from WLC but when i remote WLC to get the upload configuration file via tftp it doesn't work.
But when I try to use direct connection ( point to point ) with WLC and my laptop i can get the upload configuration file. is there something wrong, actually i have connected with that WLC i can ping and telnet that device
Any link that will give configuration examples of a wireles anchor config with one controller in a DMZ. I have tried this on my own and have some problems in my test enviorment. I believe my issues were with the firewall but not exactly sure.
I am trying to come up with a standard way to configure controllers for my field guys. I'd like to just have them paste in a config that has all the settings, like we use to be able to do on aIOS. I am not seeing away to break out of the wizard so that they can just paste in a config. Do you have to go through the wizard in order to get to a CLI ?
We have implemented VSS on Cisco 6504-E switches using the 10GE links on the Sup-720-10GE. Two Cisco WLC 5508 controllers are planned to be connected in a LAG configuration, (consisting of eight links per LAG bundle) to each of the 6504-E chassis( Total of four WLC, two for primary and two for secondary). WLC HA feature may be implemented on the primary and secondary WLC controllers using the 7.3 latest code release.
We have 5508 controller (redundant) & would like to configure Staff vlan to get authenticate with active directory.i am new to the controller device & want to configure controller with active directory (windows 2012).
5508 controller (Active & Standby) with 48 Access Point.(configuration Done) Guest Vlan (only for internet Access) controller based web authentication configured.
Staff Vlan ( inside & outside ). Need to configure with LDAP authentication?
I have found some samples on the FlexConnect setup for the controller side. However none of the documents mentioned how the switch port should be configured that goes to the controller and AP.
At this moment I have a Cisco 5508 configured in CAPWAP mode with 20 APs. I would like to use same controller for connecting one of the remote sites with 2 APs in FlexConnect mode. Current the 5508 to switch port is configured as 802.1Q port. All CAPWAP AP ports are configured as "switchport access vlan X" where X=capwap VLAN. Need to know how the switch port should be set for the remote site where flexconnect APs connect.
I have 50 WAP connected to a WLC 5508. When I backup the config I don't see the custom settings I put in some WAP. Where are the WAP settings saved at ?
I have 2 5508 controllers in a mobility group. Any good way to keep the configuration between the 2 controllers synched up?
I thought about copying the config from my primary controller to the secondary controller, but I would think there is a more elegant way to make this happen.
recently we have purchased Reflection - an AirPlay mirroring software. Basically install Reflection in the laptop and you can view the screen of the iPad or iPhone via wireless network. we have tested in home wireless network no problem, but when connect to the cisco network, the iPad didn't recognize the REFLECTION installed in the laptop.
we are running WLC 5508, WLAP AP-1331AG, we can ping from laptop to the iPad laptop and ipad can access network without any issue. there is no any application port has been blocked between the client via wifi extra details for REFLECTION: [URL]
I recently moved and my Toshiba Satellite laptop won't talk to my NetGear router. On the phone with NetGear for hours - tried everything - but tech says the problem is with the laptop and somehow the "Wireless Zero Configuration" tab in my Services is not there? I can connect through the router with my IPOD and Dell laptop.
I would like to know whether there is any command that shows the configuration of the wireless controller (5508) like when you upload the configuration file from the GUI of the WLC. In other words, I don't want to show me all the verbose running configuration as the "show running-config", but a brief configuration as for example described below: [code]
I have 5 access points (WAP4410N) all connected to a befsr41 8 port/switch router, each AP has it's own SSID. Is it possible to to have one SSID for the entire wireless network so users do not have to change SSID's every time they change locations?
I currently have a UC540 system with 12x aironet 1130 APs. Seamless roaming does not seem to work, and the recommendation seems to be to introduce a WLAN controller.
I have 3 Cisco 1242 WAPs that I have deployed at a site that has NO RADIUS/AAA devices. I have given all of them a different channel (1,6,11), but the same SSID and crypto (WPA2-PSK). The issue is when a machine boots up it associates with the closest/strongest AP, but as the device "roams" it does not which to a different AP. It stays associated with the original AP until that signal is gone. Then it quickly associates with the closest AP with no problem.
How do I get the device to associate with the strongest WAP? I have research "fast roaming and WDS" but it seems like you need EAP/LEAP and they do NOT have that at all.
have configured Cisco IPPhone 7925G with EAP-TLS setting. (With manufacture installed and Userinstalled certificate). My issue is while roaming from 1 AccessPoint to another AccessPoint the call getting droped. I need to restart the IPPhone to reauthentiate again. In ACS am agging the authentication time-out error. (I had changed the time out value for EAP-TLS to 20 in WLC as per recommendation.)
If am using static web key there is no issue in roaming.
What is the reommended setting inorder for the EAP-TLS to work properly.