topic Re: Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controlle in Wireless

Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controller

kcnajaf — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 06:12:33 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a work group bridge between Cisco AP (AP1242AG) and Aruba Wireless LAN controller (MMC3200) with AP105 AP's. I'm running IOS version c1240-k9w7-mx.124-10b.JDA3 on the Cisco AP and it this IOS support workgroup-bridge universal configuration.

Did any one had tried setting up work group bridge between Cisco and Aruba before and make it work?

Regards

Naz

Re: Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controlle

Scott Fella — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:20:53 GMT

There have been another post like yours and there are issues.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2072128

The best thing to do is try it and see if it works. Here is a link you might want to look at also.

http://wirelessccie.blogspot.com/2010/09/workgroup-bridge-wgb-cli-commands.html?m=1

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Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controller

kcnajaf — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:05:27 GMT

HI Scott,

Thanks for the documents.

I have set this up and for some reason i can not even get the radio interface (dot11radio 1) up. It always stays on "reset" and down mode 😞

But when i change the role to root the interface comes up and clients are able to connect.

The configuration is attached for reference.

hostname WGB02

enable secret 5 xxxxxxxxxx

no aaa new-model

dot11 ssid Cisco

authentication open eap eap_methods

authentication network-eap eap_methods

authentication client username WGB02 password 7 xxxxx

accounting acct_methods

bridge irb

interface Dot11Radio0

no ip address

no ip route-cache

encryption key 1 size 128bit 7 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx transmit-key

encryption mode wep mandatory

ssid Cisco

channel 2437

station-role root

rts threshold 2312

l2-filter bridge-group-acl

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control

bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source

no bridge-group 1 source-learning

no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

interface Dot11Radio1

no ip address

no ip route-cache

ssid Cisco

speed basic-54.0

station-role workgroup-bridge universal 000c.8527.0213

rts threshold 2312

l2-filter bridge-group-acl

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

interface FastEthernet0

no ip address

no ip route-cache

duplex auto

speed auto

bridge-group 1

bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled

hold-queue 160 in

interface BVI1

ip address 10.10.10. 255.255.240.0

no ip route-cache

ip default-gateway 10.10.10.10

ip http server

no ip http secure-server

ip http help-path http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/prodconfig/help/eag

bridge 1 route ip

line con 0

line vty 0 4

login

sntp server x.x.x.x

end

Regards

Najaf

Re: Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controlle

Scott Fella — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:44:06 GMT

It is suppose to be Root.....

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless/ps430/products_configuration_example09186a00805b9b87.shtml

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Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controller

kcnajaf — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:51:24 GMT

Hi Scott,

Not sure how this will be the root 😞

I have the wired client connected to this AP and from the documentation (referring the the diagram under Network Diagram heading) which you send across in your previous post the AP to which wired clients are connected as configured as Work Group bridge.

Hope this clears your confusion.

Regards

Najaf

Work Group Bridge Setup Between Cisco AP and Aruba Controller

Scott Fella — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:12:50 GMT

Your right... I was confused from another post I was looking at. I noticed you disabled all your data rates except for 54. That can be your issue. Start of easy by clearing the config, set the hostname, ip address, SSID and staiton role. See if the WGB works and then play around with the other settings.

Thanks,

Scott

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