Wireless Access Points IP assignment

[Harutyun Hakobyan]

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

[Mark Elsen]

 - 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.

[Leo Laohoo]

DHCP Option 43

[Rich R]

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.