07-01-2020 07:23 AM - edited 07-05-2021 12:14 PM
Hello all,
I have a remote location separated by L3 routers and have APs operating in flexconnect mode. My CIO would like to use the same SSIDs we have at the main campus at the remote office to make the user experience more seamless so that users moving between locations don't have to worry about connecting to different SSIDs. Is it possible to achieve this with access points operating as flexconnect? If so, can you point me in the direction for documentation and/or configuration examples & guides so that I can review it? Thank you.
Terence
07-01-2020 09:24 AM
07-01-2020 10:52 AM
So since my remote site has different VLANs than my corporate site, how does the VLAN mapping work? If I'm using the same SSIDs at the remote branch, obviously we can't span the VLANs across the L3 link so does the mapping link the corporate office VLANs to the remote branch VLANs? Can you shed some light on this for me?
07-01-2020 01:23 PM
Hi
Once you convert your remote site APs to flexconnect it will turn into a device that is capable to route locally meaning you can tag a vlan to an SSID,
Here is link on how to configure flexconnect on a WLC, just remember that your ports leading to the your new flexconnect APs need to be a trunk.
07-28-2020 03:02 PM - edited 07-28-2020 03:03 PM
I don't know why I was not getting notifications for replies to this discussion but I ended up forgetting about it until the issue popped up again. Anyway, the APs at our branch office are already operating in flexconnect mode but I'm not using Flexconnect groups. Do you think setting up the same SSIDs is worth the hassle versus installing a spare 2504 WLC at this office and just managing the WLANs separately? I'm not sure how much more complicated it'll get since the SSIDs we want to broadcast will be authenticating to Cisco ISE using guest hotspot portal, 802.1X, and iPSK.
07-01-2020 05:55 PM
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