topic Re: WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor in Wireless

WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

Tommy Johnston — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 05:02:55 GMT

Hello all-

We are deploying two 5508 WLC running 7.2 ios. Is it possible to anchor these to a 4402 running 7.0.116.0. Is there any version mismatch issues. We can find documents on the older compatibility but not on the new code.

Thanks

WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

George Stefanick — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:54:26 GMT

This actually just came up on another thread. I dont think its documented yet, but another user commented that its working on his install. I havent tested it myself.

WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

wesleyterry — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:25:33 GMT

Historically, the Anchoring in Inter-Release Controller Mobility (IRCM) is the most tolerant of mobility features regarding code versions. I've not seen an updated IRCM chart for 7.2, but Anchoring is the one supported pretty much between 4.2 up to 7.0..... I would expect that 7.0 to 7.2 would also fully function and be supported, especially since there would be alot of rumbling out there during customer migrations if people were really facing interoperability problems....

Now 7.2 to 4.2 and vice versa... thats probably more of a grey area...

WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

George Stefanick — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:33:19 GMT

Mr Wesley, Nice to see you on the forums as yourself! +5

Re: WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

Tommy Johnston — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:53:32 GMT

Thank you both for your reply. I will let you know how it goes.

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Re: WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

Tommy Johnston — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:41:47 GMT

George thanks for your help.....I tried to give it five stars but can not figure out how to change it.....

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Re: WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

Tommy Johnston — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:43:10 GMT

There are no issues with anchoring with the 7.2 to 7.0116 in our deploymen.

Thanks for the help

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Re: WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

George Stefanick — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:35:59 GMT

Tommy,

Have you tested it ? Is it working?

Re: WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

Tommy Johnston — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:39:36 GMT

Tested it with two 5508. The anchor on 7.0.116 the foreign on 7.2. No problems

Tommy

WLC 5508 to a 4402 anchor

Scott Fella — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:52:44 GMT

I have some installs where I have 5508's running 7.2 and the customer used existing 4400's as an anchor, but running 7.0.230.0 with no issues.