Static or DHCP assingned ip's for AP

[Eric Kemsley]

Is there a standard when it comes to addressing the AP's? I have always used static ip's, but was wondering if there are pros or cons to this. Does the size or number of ap's being deployed play a role in the?

TIA,

Eric

[George Stefanick · Accepted solution]

No advanatges unless you have a need to know what IP addresses your access points have.

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[Scott Fella · Accepted solution]

I tend to always use statics.... due to my clients wanting to monitor the access points using their current tools.  If not, then some have used dhcp mac reservations, but only a few of my installs have been plain dhcp.  just my 2 cents.  I don't think there is any real pro's or con's though.

Thanks,

Scott

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[Stephen Rodriguez · Accepted solution]

IMHO, DHCP is the way to go.  If the AP can't talk to the WLC for some reason it will fall back to DHCP anyway.

I don't enable telnet/ssh to the AP globally anyway, so when I need to access it, I enable per device and can get the IP then.

HTH,
Steve

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[Eric Kemsley]

Looks like it is up to wo is installing it. No pros or cons. Thanks! Very fast responses!

[Ravi Singh]

Well... I stage all the AP's so it's easier for me to create a spreadsheet with the hostname, scan in serial number, mac address, enter ip address and location. I have done large installs that entailed 12 WiSM's and still growing... all with static and small implementations all with static. How I see it is and access point is a network device, so are any of your other network devices using dhcp or even servers configured for dhcp? Clients usually will have some sort of monitoring tool and having an ip change for some wierd reason and the monitoring tool showing a different device is not a good thing. DHCP is easy and is not a bad option.