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Problems with disconnected AP's / Tunnel down

Problems with disconnected AP's / Tunnel down

Xiro
New Contributor
We have a customer with a Enterasys WLAN setup, including two C4110 and approx. 80 AP's of the model 3710. SW running is 08.21.04.0024.

The WLC's are located in a Datacenter and connected to six different Branch offices.
In the last few weeks we have some issues with some AP's in different locations:

The customer reports, that WLAN is not working. When we check the WLC, we see that the AP is connected, but the tunnel is not working properly and the radio interfaces are not sending out.

Earlier we could resolve the issue by setting/releasing admin mode, rebooting a few times, on/off transmit power, request channels -> after doing this irregularly for a few times, the AP's came up again. But now even this won't work anymore for two of them.

The AP is available via SSH, it's able to ping the WLC's and vice-versa. It's also correctly authenticating on the WLC according to the log-messages, but the radio simply won't go up.

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Is there any known workaround for this? We already tried once to replace the affected AP on one location, without any success. Simply doing the reboot process over and over again helped until now. The affected AP's are always different - sometimes one of a branch, sometimes two, but there is no recognizable pattern for the occurrence. In this case it's a bit dramatic, because the customer has only one AP at the location, which is used for some scanners that are now not working any more.

I hope someone has an idea 😕

Thanks in advance & BR,
Xiro

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Kai_Mittmeyer
New Contributor
Try reducing the AP's Tunnel-MTU size to 1300.
We found out that the default of 1500 is often a problem for AP37xx in branch-offices / remote-sites.

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Let me know if that helps!

Best regards,
Kai

Husam
New Contributor II
Great advice!

I had some problem with connecting APs at branchs with the backup tunnel. But after reducing the MTU to 1300 both tunnels go up

Thanks
Husam

Doug
Extreme Employee
Hello Xiro,

I would suggest you contact the GTAC for assistance. There are a few things we can look at but for the sake of time it would be best to setup a remote session with one of our Wireless TSE's so they can review the state of wireless system.

http://www.extremenetworks.com/support/contact

Doug Hyde

Doug Hyde
Director, Technical Support / Extreme Networks
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