WDS with different networks

[Steve Chapman]

Should the WDS be able to see AP across different networks ( different vlans )? I have 40 or so on one WDS with all the same network. I have added 3 new ones on a different network and they don't see the WDS. WLSE can see them just fine and they are pingable and working just fine.

[gamccall]

Nope, you need one WDS per subnet, unless you want to spring for the WLSM module for a Cat 6500.

[Steve Chapman]

Even if I have a WLSE in the backround?

[gamccall]

The WLSE is not a WDS. You need a WDS on each subnet; the only way the WLSM gets past this is by establishing a GRE tunnel to each AP so that it can pretend it's on the same subnet with all of them.