Re: OT:Wireless LAN Controller Enquiry

Karim,

1. Your management and AP manager interface should be on the same vlan with
two separate IP addresses.. They are what the APs and you use to talk to
the controller on the network. They can be tagged or on the native vlan.
If you trunk to the controller you will be able to assign different vlans to
each SSID. Each new interface should have an IP address on that VLAN.

The service port should be set to an out of band IP address that you would
connect an access port to.

2. The APs would be attached to the switch on an access port if you are
using local mode. It will tunnel the traffic from all SSIDs back to the
controller where it will dump the traffic out from there on the VLAN you
specify. Just make sure whatever port you attach it to can route back to the
controller or is on the same subnet/VLAN.

-Ant

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, karim jamali <karim.jamali_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Experts,
>
> I have the following question regarding the WLC scenario:
>
> 1.From my understanding, the WLC will define all the SSIDs on the
> leightwieght APs and define their associated VLANs. This necessarily means
> that the port connected to the WLC will have to be configured as a trunk
> from the switch side. The management interface on the WLC can be set in any
> OOB management VLAN, however the AP-Manager interface on the switch side
> has
> to be configured as a trunk (allowing the management VLAN/as well as the
> service VLANs); is this the correct understanding?
> 2. From the viewpoint of the APs, the port in which the AP is connected can
> be configured as an access port only (management VLAN) and then when the
> user connects to one SSID (GUEST for instance), the traffic is tunneled
> through the LWAPP tunnel to the WLC and placed in the correct VLAN?
>
> Your assistance is highly appreciated!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> KJ
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html

Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
Received on Mon Jun 14 2010 - 15:29:58 ART