I have a switch that has several devices on it. these devices are in 4 different vlans. I went to move a cisco wireless access point into a different vlan, a vlan that no end device was currently on. when i did, it said the vlan did not exist on the switch and created. i thought that was strange. sure enough, the switch was in transparent mode.
leaving the switch in transparent mode, i did a show run. i saw a bunch of vlans created directly on the switch. all devices, including the AP were working perfectly. so with my new vlan created on the switch, i moved the AP into the new vlan. it never came back up (was never seen by the wireless controller). When I move it back to the vlan it was previously in, in comes back just fine.
So i put the switch into transparent mode. did a show run, i no longer saw the vlans created directly on the switch. everything looked good. it saw all the other vlans that were never on the switch. i move the AP to my newly created vlan and it is still never seen by the controller. I put it back to its old vlan and it comes back just fine. so then, i tried a static IP on the AP and moved the port over, now it is gone forever. unless I can get the vlan to work on the switch, i will have to take the AP down (its 20 feet in the air, thats a tall ladder) and factory reset it. because with the static IP of the new vlan, it doesn't matter if i put the port back to the old vlan.
other things I have tried...
VTP settings look good. the VTP domain is the same as all my other switches (otherwise it wouldn't see the vtp database from the vtp server).
I have tried trunking the port. thought maybe this would do something.
I do not understand why all the other devices on the switch work just fine
I do not understand why this AP worked in the old vlan just fine (until the static IP of the new vlan)
I do not understand why the AP will not work in the new vlan
Any help is greatly appreciated.
