IP address at remote location

[shakeerali]

Hi,

I have Wireless controller 5508 at Main site and Cisco 3600 series access points at remote branch. There is only single WLAN broadcasting at both branch and main site.

When clients are connecting to remote site AP, there are getting ip address from main site DHCP server not from remote site DHCP server.

Please help.

Thanks

Shakeer                  

[Stephen Rodriguez · Accepted solution]

Are the AP in the remote sites running in FlexConnect mode? 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.4/configuration/guides/consolidated/b_cg74_CONSOLIDATED_chapter_010001101.html

HTH,
Steve

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[shakeerali]

Hi,

No, they are in Local mode. Do i need to change them to Flex mode and is there any other changes i need to make in controller ?

I am new to wireless :-)

Thanks.

[Scott Fella]

Take a look at the link Steve posted. In order to have the clients to obtain an IP address from the local site, the AP mode of operation does need to be in FlexConnect mode. Read through the guide prior to setting the AP in FlexConnect and you should be fine. The doc explains the process and traffic flows.

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[Stephen Rodriguez]

If you want the traffic at the remote site to stay local, and not ingress/egress the WLC, then yes you would need to configure them for FlexConnect.

That link I shared previously goes over the configurations.

HTH,
Steve

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[shakeerali]

Hi,

I have configured the AP mode as flex and everything working fine now. But I am facing issue with Apple Iphone clients.

Though Ipads can see SSID and connect to it but Iphone clients cannot see SSID itself. So what could be the problem?

Thanks.

Shakeer