AP not join to vWLC

[vidyalv00]

We have vWLC installed at data center and 5 brand new 2600 wireless APs in the remote office. The APs in remote office get IP and DNS from the local LAN. I tried to let AP initally join the vWLC by layer 3 since it's hard to get vWLC and AP in the same network. Reference from the Cisco doc, add DNS entry for CISCO.LWAPP.CONTROLLER and it's not working. I just wanted to confirm the initial set up has to be on the same network, or there are other way around?

Thanks in advance.       

[Scott Fella]

You need to resolve CISCO.CAPWAP.CONTROLLER..com

Thanks,

Scott

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[Scott Fella · Accepted solution]

Or on the remote site, globally on the layer 3, you can issues:

ip forward-protocol udp 5246

ip forward-protocol udp 5247

On the svi that the ap's are on, you would issue:

ip helper-address

Thanks,

Scott

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[vidyalv00]

Many thanks Scott. That's working!

[Scott Fella]

No problem.... which one did you decide to try?

Thanks,

Scott

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[vidyalv00]

I tried the ip helper-address. A smart way to make broadcast traffic over routing hop.