AIR-AP2802I with Mobility Express: WLC IP Address via DHCP?

[MATTHIAS SCHAERER]

Is it possible to assign the controller in Mobility Express an IP address via DHCP (reserve it afterwards or reconfigure it statically)?

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Mobility Express required two IPs, one for AP itself & another for WLC. Typically you will configure WLC IP statically through setup wizard.

Leave the AP IP to dhcp

HTH

Rasika

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[MATTHIAS SCHAERER]

Hi Rasika

thanks for your reply but I was explicitly asking if there is a possibility to assign the controller IP address by DHCP. I face a multisite enterprise network in which the wizard is not really a cool way to do the rather specific configuration. If I want to preconfigure and test the controllers at the central site a static IP address is not handy.

Cheers

Mat

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Hi Matt,

Yes, In setup wizard, you have the option of setting it via DHCP as well 

Management Interface IP Address Configuration [STATIC][dhcp]:

If you are staging them in central site, you have to go through wizard & leave it DHCP, Then find the MAC address of controller management interface & try to reserve IP from each branch dhcp pool.

HTH

Rasika

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[Benjamin Hofstetter]

What software version are you using? I have not had that option with 8.4.

[Evan Wheatley · Accepted solution]

I've found you can use DHCP for the management address in 8.7. I can't recall for earlier versions.