topic Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed? in Wireless

Where are AP BSSID's listed?

bischoffb — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 07:12:55 GMT

Are the BSSID's for each AP 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz radio listed on the AP itself, on the shipping box, or anywhere so I can document them prior to connecting to WLC?

Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

Scott Fella — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:07:51 GMT

There is no SSID configured on the AP. The WLC will push the SSID to the ap when it joins.

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Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

Richard Atkin — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:07:07 GMT

If you mean the 'MAC Address' associated with each, then it's the Base Radio MAC Address, but the last character changes from 1-F in line with the WLAN ID.

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Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

George Stefanick — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:50:03 GMT

Here is a blog I did on this subject

http://www.my80211.com/home/2011/5/2/wlc-how-cisco-virtualizes-the-base-radio-mac-address-on-the.html

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Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

Ravi Singh — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:02:03 GMT

By default there is no SSID or BSSID configured on AP. You have to configure it manually on AP or it's pushed by WLC when AP joined the WLC. So there is no predefined list.

Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

ChuckFulgium2003 — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:59:16 GMT

Thank you for the generous responses. What I ended up doing was an export from Prime filtering on the 30 floor tower we are looking at. I then removed the extraneous columns and from the CLI I did a show ap wlan 802.11a and b to validate what the BSSID's were. In Excel I ran a formula against the base radio MAC's (=REPLACE(start text,17,1, "1"). This took the first cell where the data was to change, moved to the seventeenth character, only removed 1 character, and replaced it with a 1. Since all of the BSSID's ended with the same character on that band I did the old faithful click and drag all the way down the column to apply it to the 280 AP's, then repeated it for the 802.11b band. It worked perfectly. Thanks again for the replies.

Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

jbarger — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:50:37 GMT

While trying to find how to export a list of BSSID MAC addresses I found this post but didn't get me what I wanted so I will add what I did, log into the WLC and run these two commands "show ap summary" has the location and the IP address "show advanced 802.11a summary" has the BSSID of every AP on, easy to go from there.

Re: Where are AP BSSID's listed?

Arthur Spaehnle — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:45:53 GMT

in case someone needs to to this on the 9800 use:

show ap wlan summary

This command provides all BSSIDs with the SSID and AP name.