AIR-AP1852i-e-k9 connecting to controller

[craig.huggins]

I am trying to connect some 1852's to a wireless controller back at our main office, i have tried this via the dhcp option 43 and dns ip address of the controller but cant get either to work.  We use Mikrotik's for the router/dhcp/dns/firewall at the remote sites.  Does anybody have any experience/advice on how i can get the ap's to discover the controller.

[Sandeep Choudhary]

Paste the output from WLC: sh sysinfo

Also show me the seeting used for option43...

Also paste the boot-up process from AP console.

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[craig.huggins]

WLC: sh sysinfo

Manufacturer's Name.............................. Cisco Systems Inc.

Product Name..................................... Cisco Controller
Product Version.................................. 8.3.102.0
RTOS Version..................................... 8.3.102.0
Bootloader Version............................... 8.3.15.96
Emergency Image Version.......................... 8.3.102.0

OUI File Update Time............................. Sun Sep 07 10:44:07 IST 2014

Build Type....................................... DATA + WPS

System Name...................................... CiscoWLC
System Location..................................
System Contact...................................
System ObjectID.................................. 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.1631
IP Address....................................... 192.168.150.23
IPv6 Address..................................... ::
System Up Time................................... 0 days 20 hrs 54 mins 19 secs
System Timezone Location.........................
System Stats Realtime Interval................... 5
System Stats Normal Interval..................... 180

--More-- or (q)uit

Configured Country............................... GB - United Kingdom

State of 802.11b Network......................... Enabled
State of 802.11a Network......................... Enabled
Number of WLANs.................................. 1
Number of Active Clients......................... 0

OUI Classification Failure Count................. 0

Burned-in MAC Address............................ 00:0C:29:9A:40:4B
Maximum number of APs supported.................. 3000
System Nas-Id....................................
WLC MIC Certificate Types........................ SHA1
Licensing Type................................... RTU
vWLC config...................................... Large

i have configured option 43 on the mikrotik on the remote site with code - 43 value - 0xf104******** with the * being the public address of the controller back at the main office.  I cant get the boot up process of the ap's at the remote site as im not there and cant get onto them sorry

[Sandeep Choudhary]

option 43 configuration must look like this:

option 43 hex f104C0A89617

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[craig.huggins]

the access point and the controller are on different networks, so shouldn't i use the public address of the controller instead?  Do i need to configure option 60 as well?

[Sandeep Choudhary]

no you don't need to use Public IP address to join AP to WLC.

1. How these two site are connected ? via VPN or ....

2. How your network looks like.. could you please show us the diagram!!!

check this link:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12277986/ap-connection-wlc-remote-site

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[craig.huggins]

we dont have a connection to the vpn we just have a mikrotik there which controls firewall/dns/dhcp and a switch which the cisco access points are connected to.  We have similar setups for other sites using unifi ap's and they connect back to our controller using static dns option, is this possible with cisco?