AP-7522 Client Bridging Isn't Working

[Aaron_Wright]

I have two AP-7522 access points. Both have version 5.9.1.4-004R. Both receive their power and network through a Symbol AP-PSBIAS-2P2-AFR "brick". I set the country name to "United States-us" on both because I read the radios will not turn on until you do.

AP#1 - This is the "host" access point connected to the wired LAN with access to the internet. The internal network is 192.168.1.0/24. I've given this AP the IP address 192.168.1.101. I configured a wireless network with SSID "myWireless", Secure-PSK, WPA2-CCMP, and the key is "myWirelessKey". Radio 1 is 2.4GHz, radio 2 is 5GHz.

AP#2 - This is the "client" access point that I want to bridge to AP#1. I have AP#2 connected to an unmanaged 5 port switch, which also connects a desktop PC. It's this desktop PC that needs access to the internet. I've given this AP the IP address 192.168.1.101. For the bridging configuration I followed the directions here (https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000082884)

• en
• conf t
• profile
• interface radio 2
• rf-mode bridge
• bridge ssid myWireless
• bridge vlan 1
• bridge encryption-type ccmp
• bridge authentication-type none
• bridge wpa-wpa2 psk 0 myWirelessKey
• no bridge eap username
• no bridge eap password
• bridge eap type peap-mschapv2
• bridge roam-criteria missed-beacons 20
• bridge roam-criteria rssi-threshold -75
• bridge channel-list 5GHz 36,40,44,48
• bridge channel-list 2.4GHz
• comm wr

However when I run "show wireless bridge candidate-ap" it reports 0 candidate APs. AP#1 shows no wireless clients. The workstation can successfully ping AP#2 and vice versa. I am able to reach the web interface and ssh on AP#1 on the 192.168.1.0/24 network. But AP#1 can't ping AP#2 and vice versa. Nothing on the 192.168.1.0/24 network can ping AP#2 or the desktop PC. The desktop PC cannot reach anything on the 192.168.1.0/24 network.

Right now both APs are in the same room, 10 feet from each other, no physical obstacles between them.

In my searching I also found (https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000063492) I tried the solution there but it didn't help.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or what I'm missing?

Additional questions:
1 - Do I have to configure any bridging properties on the AP#1 that is connected to the wired network with internet access? None of the guides I've read mention anything about configuration on the "host" AP, but since I can't get this working I'm wondering if some configuration is necessary on AP#1.

2 - Do I have to load a special firmware version to be able to access bridging configuration in the web GUI? Right now none of those configuration options are there and I have to do everything through ssh/command line. I know this was the case for some APs in the past that didn't have a web GUI at all and you had to download the firmware that included the GUI.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
Aaron

[Aaron_Wright]

I log in via ssh, then enter the commands "en", then "self", then "show context". Below is the output. I'm typing this by hand, not copy/paste, as this is the desktop PC connected to AP#2 and it doesn't have internet access. Might be typos, I'll do my best to proofread.

I gave the wired interface ge1 the IP address 192.168.1.102/24. Is that going to conflict with anything we're adding to this profile PROFILE-AP7522 ?

• ap7522 B8-50-01-A8-19-50
• use profile PROFILE-AP7522
• use rf-domain default
• hostname ap7522-A81950
• ip default-gateway 192.168.111.1
• interface vlan1
• description "WAN Interface"
• ip address 192.168.111.102/24
• no ip dhcp client request options all
• no shutdown
• no virtual-controaller
• rf-domain-manager capable
• ip dns-server-forward
• ip nat inside source list default-B85001A81950-nat precedence 1 itnerface vlan1 overload
• no adoption-mode

[ckelly]

I should've remembered that too.
Any time you create a new Profile....it doesn't come pre-populated with VLAN-1. You need to manually add it if you need it on the AP.

In this case, you need to go into the Profile and create the VLAN-1 entry:

en config t profile ap7522 PROFILE-AP7522 interface vlan 1 commit write optionally - ip address 192.168.1.102/24 (you could also enter this address in the override section) commit wr

This missing VLAN-1 entry shouldn't stop the AP from being able to discover candidate APs though.
What other entries are there in the self (override) section?

What is the output of:

show wireless radio

[Aaron_Wright]

Update: I issued the command "use profile PROFILE-AP7522" and now "show context" reports that profile is being used. Still have zero candidate APs though.

I'm looking at the output of "show running-config" and PROFILE-AP7522 doesn't have any "vlan 1" entries in it. I entered the vlan commands from the bulleted list though. Is this an issue?

[ckelly]

Aha...so there's the issue then.

Command to change this:

• en
• self
• use profile PROFILE-AP7522
• commit write

As long as you're in the override section, what else is in there? Just want to make sure there's nothing else that is going to mess things up.

[Aaron_Wright]

The entry says "use profile default-ap7522". How can I switch it to use PROFILE-AP7522?

How can I perform a factory reset to get back to the default configuration? Do I log in as user "reset" and password "FactoryDefault" ? I've tried so many things, one of my previous attempts to fix the problem might actually be causing me problems at this point and I need to start from a clean slate.