[c-nsp] WLC and LWAPP Aps

[Dracul]

Thanks Nick,

I'm planning to maximize my 4404's capability. which is 100. What I'm afraid
of if the internal DHCP of the 4404 will be ok to serve the 100 LWAPs. Then
my clients would use another DHCP server to connect.

Best regards,
Chris

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Nick Griffin <nick.jon.griffin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You should be asking yourself, how many access points can the controller
> itself accomodate, I imagine that the DHCP server will let you dole out dhcp
> scopes all day long, but at the end of the day the controllers are bound to
> a maximum number of access points. If your ap manager and your management
> interface are on the same subnet, its a great idea to place the access
> points your talking about on the same vlan/subnet so that they may discover
> the controller via L2 broadcast frames, otherwise you get to do some
> TLV/conversions to configure DHCP option 43, in your situation, since this
> is your first deployment I would recommend priming the access points as I
> mentioned above. You will also need to configure the ip address of the
> controller under the management, and probably the ap manager interface.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Nick Griffin
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Dracul <chris.garzon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Additional query.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer at loplof.de> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:48:59AM +0800, Dracul wrote:
>> > > Has anyone done smooth installs with Cisco WLC 4404 series with AIR
>> 1131.
>> > I
>> > > cannot seem to make the lighweight AP to get IP address from
>> > > the internal DHCP server of the WLC let more the LW AP be discovered
>> by
>> > the
>> > > 4404. used Layer2 and Layer 3 mode already
>> >
>> > How about some more details? Are AP and management-if in the same
>> network?
>> > If not, what have you done to make sure that the AP knows where to find
>> it?
>> > If all fails: You can configure the managementi-if address directly on
>> the
>> > lw-ap command line.
>> >
>> >  Ciao
>> >   Joerg
>> > --
>> > Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer at loplof.de
>> >
>> > We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
>> > works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
>> >
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