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Hi,I would like to set up the following,1. set trunk on the AP and LAN switch2. configure the client obtain ip address from my wired network (vlan 5, ip 192.168.10.0/24)3. configure the management vlan 6, ip address 10.10.10.1The wireless clients wil...
I'm trying to figure out if the MR18's are made to be mounted upside down. Unlike the the MR33 diagrams, there is no way to tell how the APs are oriented in the published signal coverage patterns (radiation). In the diagram, there appears to be a 5dB...
Hey guys,Does anyone happen to know if Meraki MR access points support submitting credentials to the connected switchport via EAP/802.1X so that the AP itself can authenticate to ISE? I know that traditional LWAPs from Cisco support this (see:https:/...
Resolved! Cisco AP 1852E-B-K9
Hi all,I've just bought a Cisco AP Aironet 1852. I'm trying to configure it but I can't in any way:- Cable console seems not working (using putty, used a lot of times before. The cable is not the Cisco official cable, but it's a RS232 to RJ45 cable c...
Hi In one environment where many APs join to one WLC, adjacent channel interference--ACI happening is due to very closeness of two AP in RF or physical distance or both? Thank you
Hello,We want to upgrade two controllers (5508) in cluster with HA AP-SSO enabled. Could you please give me some recommandations before doing the upgrade? I do not know if all of the APs on the active Wlc will be automatically transfered to the stand...
Dear Friends, We are getting below trap message from our monitoring tool, for one AP. Trap = bsnAPCurrentTxPowerChanged Could you please let me know how to fix these issues.
I have Cisco WLC 8510 which using Cisco ACS 5.7 to authenticate wireless users using PEAP authentication. I configured Group Mapping on the ACS to map the external groups (AD Groups) to the local ACS group, then I configured MAX session user settings...
Looking for a little help in where I went wrong. I successfully added a 5760 wireless controller to PI2.2. It is displayed in the inventory. What is strange is The Client Count is populated correctly but the AP Count is 0. The AP Count should rea...
Hello Experts, Are there any means that we can gracefully shutdown the Cisco WLC? In CMX and MSE we have the options to do that by : cmxctl stop and msed services stop respectively.However don't find any means to do that for Cisco WLCs. This would he...
Resolved! Downtime when Enabling TCP-MSS Gloablly?
Hello All,When enabling TCP MSS under Wireless > Access Points > Global Configuration, will the APs reboot when I click apply?Also, under Cisco's WLC Configuration Best Practices, it says: "In general, a 1300 bytes value is a good average, although i...
Resolved! Cannot identify new clients
Hello - My two Meraki APs (MR16) send me a daily summary report. Several days ago some new devices appeared in the list. I cannot figure out what they are. I am not aware of anything new being added to the LAN. They appear every day (some days fewer ...
Resolved! What does SmartDFS do?
In recent versions of Cisco WLAN software, both the 8.x chain and the 16.x chain, there is a new feature called SmartDFS that can be checked or unchecked. What does it do?
We got our first bunch of 15 MR33 yesterday, we are going to put them in office and work shop. office is considered as open area in most area, workshop has a lot machinery which may block the signal. so I would like to have some general information a...
I've been trying to search online for some reasons why some of my users may be seeing slow downloads (less than a mbps) but decent uploads (20+mbps) when doing a speedtest. Obviously which server they're targeting may be a factor but I'm looking for...
