Unstable WGB on WLC

[DonavanFritz]

Hi All,

I am currently seeing some stability problems with a 2504 WLC and a wireless bridge (Netgear WNCE2001 to be exact). The wireless bridge can connect to the network, but is very unstable. It will disconnect after 5 - 60 minutes of operation. Has anyone else seen issues like this?

I believe part of the issue is that the bridges, when associated, do not show up as a WGB according to the WLC.

Does anyone have a way to solve this issue?  Or any WGBs that are known to work well in a controller based environment?

The WLC is running 7.0.220.0 and the APs are 1142s and 3502s.

[Scott Fella]

On the WLAN SSID that the bridge connects to, make sure you have passive mode enabled.

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[Saravanan Lakshmanan]

3rd party wgb does not use iapp which is native to cisco wgb in this context. However 3rd party wgb is supported from 7.0.116.0 on specific WLCs.

Non-Cisco Workgroup Bridges

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.0MR1/configuration/guide/cg_lwap.html#wp1906809

Also, add the wgb MAC address to mac filter on WLC.

[Scott Fella]

Sorry this was a duplicate that sent last week that just got posted:)

On the SSID that the bridge is connecting to, make sure you have passive mode enables.

Thanks,

Scott Fella

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[aharentimken]

Scott

I am running 7.0.116 on a 4400 and I don't see the option for passive under the SSID.  Will you please explain where that is located?  Thank you.

[Scott Fella]

Its under the advanced tab in the WLAN SSID.  Here you go:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.0/configuration/guide/c70wlan.html#wp1394794    

[Saravanan Lakshmanan]

#WLC 4400(all NPU based) platform doesn't support passive client on any code version.

#3rd party wgb support does work for major soho vendors in the market with certain WLC platorms(see below) as it is tested in cisco labs.

#

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.0MR1/configuration/guide/cg_lwap.html#wp1906809

Note

The  Non-Cisco WGB feature is supported only on the 5508, 2500 and 2100  Controllers. NPU based platforms (4400/wism/3750w) do not support this  feature.

#however, you could try adding the 3rd party wgb mac address to WLC's mac filter list and test with simple to robust security and see that works for you.

#while trying to connect the wgb get the debugt output. WLC>debug client

[Scott Fella]

Good catch Saravanan!

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[aharentimken]

Thank you both for your help!!