topic Re: Wireless Access Points IP assignment in Wireless

Wireless Access Points IP assignment

Harutyun Hakobyan — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:34:34 GMT

Hi All,

What is best practice of assigning IP addresses to Access Points: static or dynamic ?

Please provide pros and cons for each one.

For example consider deployment of 10 APs and deployment of 1000 APs.

Thank you

Re: Wireless Access Points IP assignment

Mark Elsen — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:12:35 GMT

- Dynamic and or with DHCP , static addressing does not scale , also DHCP option 43 can be used to let the AP know the address of the wireless controller

Re: Wireless Access Points IP assignment

Leo Laohoo — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:35:09 GMT

DHCP Option 43

Re: Wireless Access Points IP assignment

Rich R — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:51:54 GMT

As previous 2 answers - whether 10 or 1000 APs the answer is still the same - DHCP with option 43. It's easy, it's flexible and it's Cisco recommended best practice so if you go static then you do so at your own risk.