Wireless Access Points IP assignment

Harutyun Hakobyan · ‎03-26-2023

Hi All,

What is best practice of assigning IP addresses to Access Points: static or dynamic ?

Please provide pros and cons for each one.

For example consider deployment of 10 APs and deployment of 1000 APs.

Thank you

marce1000 · ‎03-26-2023

- Dynamic and or with DHCP , static addressing does not scale , also DHCP option 43 can be used to let the AP know the address of the wireless controller

M.

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Leo Laohoo · ‎03-27-2023

DHCP Option 43

Rich R · ‎03-27-2023

As previous 2 answers - whether 10 or 1000 APs the answer is still the same - DHCP with option 43. It's easy, it's flexible and it's Cisco recommended best practice so if you go static then you do so at your own risk.

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