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Hi All, I am currently planning a migration from a Cisco 5508 WLC with 2800/3800 series APs to a 9800 with 9100 series APs. We are looking to install the new 9100 APs in parallel to the existing and then migrate a given area by disabling the 2800/380...
I was wanting to implement FlexConnect. I had a question regarding the best practices or recommendations regarding FlexConnect Groups.I have multiple remote locations with 1-7 APs and some campus locations with 20+ APs. We have a standard for VLANs a...
Resolved! ethernet to wireless
Hello All,Not a wireless expert by any means.I have an ethernet to wireless device (anybus bolt) that I have connected to an SSID. feeding off of that is an IoT device (PLC).I can see the PLC connected, its IP, its MAC, able to ping the device throug...
Hi! Have you encountered in WLC 9800 that a wireless user is unable to redirect to client provisioning portal of ISE? based on logs the user is successfully authenticated and supposed to be redirected but it isn't happening. This is supposed to be be...
We have a 4404 controller running on 7.0.116.0. All the ap's registered to that wlc suddenly had capwap flapping. Aps were then stable after few mins. We didnt see any issue on the switch/fw (L3 interface created). Any idea what could be checked ?
I have a MS225-24pw, I also have a MR76 in the same locations.I want to add a point to point It a TP-Link CPE710 I am putting this device on the roof facing the baseball park. On the other end I have a ms120-8FP and it has MR76 also to get data I wi...
Is it possible to use DNA Spaces without DNA Center or Prime ? There does not seem to be a nice way (read , any way) of getting maps in DNA Spaces without those two. Did I miss something ? Thanks Thomas
Resolved! MX450 Performance capability
My customer currently has 2 HA pair of MX450 acting solely as wireless concentrators. Due to a DC move they have questioned can these be consolidated into a single HA pair. They have approximately 600 AP's with each AP supporting on average 5 tunnell...
Resolved! Wireless AP Bridge commands
In every sample of configuring wireless access points, including Cisco documentation (notably the older Aeronet ones), I find the following lines to be configured on the bridge group which includes the radio interface: bridge-group 1 block-unknown-s...
I am new to configuring these 9800 controllers. I have experience with a 5200 series controller and I am aware that the firmware is different. I am in an ongoing battle with DHCP working but not as intended or not working. I am trying to configure th...
Resolved! 9800 HA N+1 Retaining AP Tags
We are in the process of converting to Cisco 9800 controllers and are testing the HA failover in a N+1 deployment. When AP's are failed mover to the secondary HA controller, they are falling into the default policy, site, and rf tag group. On the H...
I've noticed some odd behaviour for web auth ("global" parameter map). This applies on IOS XE 17.9.3 and 17.9.4a, and possibly on other versions too.If I use the web GUI to define the banner text as "Welcome", then save my changes, this gets truncate...
In some release notes for APSP it states that for example SP2 contains all the fixes of SP1, so you only have to install SP2. But I cant quite seem to find this "wording" on APSP release notes for 17.9.4. Did it change ?
Resolved! client exclusion of WLC
Hi I would like to ask that is wireless client MAC address has been assgin to Excluded Clients, does the WLC will ignore the "auth request" during the exclustion period? Frankie
Resolved! about CAPWAP data flow
As I know, a WLC receives a user packet from AP via CAPWAP, it will remove CAPWAP header, translate L2 header and forward it to a GW. Here are my questions and do appreciate any input from you. Thanks!Q1. If a WLC uses trunk port to connect to L3 sw...
