Flexconnect AP(Local Switching) Wireless clients are not able communicate eachother

[shanmugam.n]

Hi,

  Scenario :  We are deployed the WLC in Corparate Office and Access Points are placed in Branch Office with FlexConnect Local Switching mode.

In this case, I am not able to Ping the Wireless clients eachother . Peer to Peer Block Option also Disabled.

Some time Wireless clients Ping eachother & some times not. Both Wireless clients  are associated with Same AP & Same WLAN SSID.

Please help me urgent ..

Devices :

1)WLC 2500 series , Software 7.2

2)Cisco 1400 series APs

3)CISCO ACS server for AAA authentication

Regards,

Shanmugam Nachimuthu

[shanmugam.n]

Please help me urgent..

[prashant.gondaliya · Accepted solution]

Hi Shanmugam,

Please apply following steps to configure P2P setting for WLAN:

Step 1 Choose WLANs to open the WLANs page.

Step 2 Click the ID number of the WLAN for which you want to configure peer-to-peer blocking.

Step 3 Choose the Advanced tab to open the WLANs > Edit (Advanced) page.

Step 4 Choose one of the following options from the P2P Blocking drop-down list:

• Disabled — Disables peer-to-peer blocking and bridges traffic locally within the controller whenever possible. This is the default value.

NOTE: Traffic is never bridged across VLANs in the controller.

• Drop—Causes the controller to discard the packets.

• Forward - Upstream — causes the packets to be forwarded on the upstream VLAN. The device above the controller decides what action to take regarding the packets.

NOTE: To enable peer-to-peer blocking on a WLAN configured for FlexConnect local switching, select Drop from the P2P Blocking drop-down list and select the FlexConnect Local Switching check box.

Step 5 Click Apply to commit your changes.

Step 6 Click Save Configuration to save your changes.

Thanks,
Prashant Gondaliya

[shanmugam.n]

Hi Prashant Ji,

  Thanks for your reply.

The P2P setting for WLAN is already disabled only..

WLAN L2 Security settings option  WPA gtk-randomize option was enabled.This option kills the broadcast and multicasts in that WLAN. So we disabled that option , its working fine now.

Below options also changed.

•      Disable session timeout
•      Disable client exclusion
•      Raised the idle timeout.

Regards,

N.Shanmugam

[prashant.gondaliya]

Thanks for sharing valuable details and giving rating for the post.

Thanks,
Prashant Gondaliya