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Resolved! RF Watts and Decibels
Hello, everyone. I am very early onto ENCOR's Wireless section and I have a few questions. I understand that once a transmitter applies current to the antenna, it will have a certain signal power, say 20mW. The antenna then can boost the signal (say ...
Hi,can someone help me with the firmware file 8.10.196.0 for these controllers? Please.
Resolved! CSMA/CD vs CSMA/CA Collision Detection
Hello, everyone. I have some questions as to what the difference between CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA is. First of all, how exactly do these two differ? From my understanding after reading the explanations to them, CSMA/CD is capable of detecting and recoveri...
Do I face any incompatibility issue while using anchor wlc in 8.2.170 and foreign wlc in 8.5.182 IOS? Below is the details of framework.Anchor:Hardware -Cisco WLC 2500 seriesImage- 8.2.170Foreign:Hardware- Cisco WLC 8500 seriesImage-8.5.182
Hi,Dealing with Cisco C9800 controllers and tons of FlexConnect APs, I've faced numerous issues/challenges with APs software Image Download process. Some related with certain software bugs, others with branch site poor network connectivity, or contro...
The passwords are not hashed; they are just encrypted. The MAC field is just a HMAC protecting the _encrypted_ data; what you want is the iv and passwd fields. The static AES-128-CBC key (presumably what “PS_STATIC” is referring to, I haven't seen a ...
It would appear that there is a new snag to the expiring certificates that I ran into on a WLC 2504 with 8.5.160 and AP's of 3602i and 3702i. Specifically, the WLC certificate expired on Feb 17th 2025 and I guess the APs stay connected until somethin...
Hello,I have a question about using an access point for outside.Our supplier suggested the model C9124AXI-E and it was also purchased. However, this is not to the liking of our architect because the device stands out against a black wall covering.Acc...
Resolved! Wireless Controller 9800 RP port
Hello,I am trying to set up SSO but I struggle to activate RP ports. I have connected them via fiber to swiches in the same vlan and I do not get any link. I do not see that RP port as available port in Web Gui menu redundancy config. I have attached...
We are using about 80 PC terminals with about 3 APs for training new employees, but when a terminal that has an unstable connection and is disconnected is reconnected to the wireless LAN, another PC terminal is disconnected.Monitoring > Wireless > Ra...
I have 8540 WLC with 8.10.x code with more than 1000 APs and I want to move all APs to new 9800 WLC without a long downtime. can someone please guide me.
For anyone else having this kind of problem, I would ask if you have type 6 or type 7 passwords for your radius servers in the 9800CL config?For years I've been seeing a bug in IOS-XE that you only see when you turn on FIPS and have type 6 radius pas...
Hi. We have a pair of 5520's supporting mulitple customer sites. One of the sites now has 100 AP's but the customer needs more on some new office space. The new AP's have to go into the existing AP Group so to do this we have created a new AP Group f...
Resolved! 2802i AP blank NAND, how to recover?
I recently acquired a lot of second hand 2802i access points. It appears that one of these APs has a blank NAND flash chip. AP boot loops at U-Boot until I break into U-Boot with escape key. Upon checking "nand info" nand 0 is seen, and checking "ubi...
Has this bug been resolved in FW release 17.9.6?
