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Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

ALIAOF_ — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 04:55:53 GMT

I have been doing research on configuring one of our contoller and just finding kind of conflicting information and I haven't been able to get it to work:

- It says to tag VLAN per Cisco but Cisco examples are show VLAN's untagged

- It says to not configure a native VLAN but Cisco examples are showing the native VLAN configured on the switch

I have my switch configured as:

interface GigabitEthernet0/33

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport mode trunk

channel-group 11 mode on

interface Port-channel11

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport mode trunk

And I enabled LAG on the controller and confirmed it that it is enabled by "show lag summary". I have the management internface IP information configured and I'm tagging it I have the VLAN number in there. What am I doing wrong I can't ping the management interface or ping out from the controller.

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

daviwatk — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:52:37 GMT

It seems like you have probably tagged your management with the native vlan id of 1. Since you don't have a native set; 1 will be the native vlan; expecting untagged traffic from your WLC. Thus, you would want your management interface to be untagged.

From the console

>config interface vlan management 0

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

ALIAOF_ — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:22:33 GMT

No I have the VLAN tagged on that part as 3000:

(Cisco Controller) >show interface summary

Interface Name Port Vlan Id IP Address Type Ap Mgr Guest

-------------------------------- ---- -------- --------------- ------- ------ -----

management 1 3000 10.230.0.9 Static Yes No

service-port N/A N/A 0.0.0.0 DHCP No No

virtual N/A N/A 1.1.1.1 Static No No

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

vinodjad1234 — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:43:54 GMT

Hi,

Can we have configuration on switch like below :

switch#

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport trunk native vlan 3000

switchport trunk allowed vlan 3000, x , y - whereas x & y is your other ssid which is mapped to respective vlan

switchport mode trunk

no shut

......

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

Stephen Rodriguez — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:14:45 GMT

From the show interface summary, lag is not enalbed. It would should show up as port 13, not port 1. After you enabled LAG, did you reboot the WLC?

Steve

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ALIAOF_ — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:29:31 GMT

If I do the native VLAN then if there is an issue with the DHCP serve wouldn't it put the clients on the management VLAN?

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

ALIAOF_ — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:30:14 GMT

Sorry I copied it from when I didn't have th LAG enabled while testing. Here is how it is now:

(Cisco Controller) >show interface summary

Interface Name Port Vlan Id IP Address Type Ap Mgr Guest

-------------------------------- ---- -------- --------------- ------- ------ -----

management LAG 3000 10.230.0.9 Static Yes No

service-port N/A N/A 0.0.0.0 DHCP No No

virtual N/A N/A 1.1.1.1 Static No No

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

Stephen Rodriguez — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:34:14 GMT

Native vlan is just a matter of what happens when the WLC sends untagged traffic to the switch.

Best practice is to tag all interfaces, for QoS purposes.

One question, on your switch do you have the native vlan-tag configured?

Steve

Cisco WLC 5508 Basic Config questions

ALIAOF_ — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:25:13 GMT

Yeah I want to tag all the VLAN's for sure. Here is my switch config:

Building configuration...

Current configuration : 140 bytes

interface Port-channel11

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport trunk allowed vlan 63,121,190,3000

switchport mode trunk

end

3560-153#show runn int gi0/33

Building configuration...

Current configuration : 171 bytes

interface GigabitEthernet0/33

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport trunk allowed vlan 63,121,190,3000

switchport mode trunk

channel-group 11 mode on

end

3560-153#show runn int gi0/34

Building configuration...

Current configuration : 171 bytes

interface GigabitEthernet0/34

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport trunk allowed vlan 63,121,190,3000

switchport mode trunk

channel-group 11 mode on

end