[c-nsp] Aironet 1200 repeater

[Kristofer Sigurdsson]

Thanks to everybody who replied.

I got this working.  First of all, on the repeater I had to define
dot11Radio0 (under interface config) as an infrastructure-client.  Second of
all, I could not get this working without using VLANs.  That is, I had to
use dot1q subinterfaces and make the VLAN associated with the infrastructure
SSID the native VLAN.  Seems unlogical.  Admittingly, I didn't go into too
much testing after I got this working nicely, but looks like an interesting
bug.

Thanks again,
Kristo

2007/8/14, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net>:
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:29:03AM +0000, Kristofer Sigurdsson wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I have some experience with setting up Aironet wireless networks, but up
> > until now, I have not extended their range by the use of repeaters.  I
> was
> > trying to get it to work yesterday, but unfortunately, I hit some
> problems.
> > I'm using Aironet 1242, 802.11G interfaces.
> >
> > I managed to get the repeater to associate to the root AP (only once,
> > though, shouldn't it associate twice, once for the AP, once for it's
> virtual
> > interface?).  The status light on the repeater was a steady blue,
> instead of
> > the steady green it was supposed to be (?).
> >
> > When clients associated with the root AP, they were fine.  Everything
> worked
> > smoothly.  When they associated with the repeater, they could not go any
> > further than to the repeater.  That is, they could ping and telnet to
> the
> > repeater, but not to the root AP, or anything behind it.  When telnet'd
> into
> > the repeater, I could ping/telnet/whatever from there, though.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
>         so i have a large repeater setup that I use in my neighborhood
> using 350's.  Here's the config from one of the IOS 350's.  If plugged in
> to the wired, it bridges to 802.11 and if not, it goes into repeater
> mode.  Works well for me.  I'd like to get some cheap 1100 or 1200's to
> upgrade it to 802.11g, but the cost of 350's used makes it kinda hard
> to justify :)
>
>         - jared
>
> Current configuration : 1924 bytes
> !
> ! No configuration change since last restart
> !
> version 12.3
> no service pad
> service timestamps debug datetime msec
> service timestamps log datetime msec
> service password-encryption
> service internal
> no service dhcp
> !
> hostname AP350
> !
> enable secret 5 $1$nCBg$676HlLgCUfdbdwlmM6k2H0
> !
> ip subnet-zero
> ip domain name nether.net
> !
> !
> aaa new-model
> !
> !
> aaa authorization exec default local if-authenticated
> aaa session-id common
> !
> dot11 ssid 8285ReeseLaneAP
>    authentication open
>    guest-mode
>    infrastructure-ssid optional
> !
> dot11 network-map
> dot11 arp-cache
> dot11 adjacent-ap age-timeout 1
> !
> !
> !
> bridge irb
> !
> !
> interface Dot11Radio0
> no ip address
> no ip route-cache
> logging event subif-link-status
> logging event subif-link-status ignore-bulk
> load-interval 30
> !
> ssid 8285ReeseLaneAP
> !
> parent timeout 5
> speed basic-1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0
> channel 2462
> station-role root fallback repeater
> infrastructure-client
> bridge-group 1
> bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control
> bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source
> no bridge-group 1 source-learning
> no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding
> bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
> !
> interface FastEthernet0
> no ip address
> no ip route-cache
> load-interval 30
> duplex auto
> speed auto
> bridge-group 1
> no bridge-group 1 source-learning
> bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
> !
> interface BVI1
> ip address dhcp client-id FastEthernet0
> no ip route-cache
> load-interval 30
> !
> ip http server
> no ip http secure-server
> ip http help-path
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/prodconfig/help/eag
> !
> no cdp log mismatch duplex
> !
> control-plane
> !
> bridge 1 route ip
> !
> !
> !
> line con 0
> stopbits 1
> line vty 0 4
> access-class 99 in
> line vty 5 15
> access-class 99 in
> !
> end
>
>
> --
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>