rf domain - controller managed and control vlan

[Daniel_Starosci]

Hello,

We have a rf-domain with 78 AP's. Right now that rf domain is controller managed. We would like to give it a vlan for control traffic where in our case it would be 1 since the AP's interface is vlan 1.

I heard that the max amount of AP's you can have in a rf domain and have a control vlan is 64. Is it possible to have both controller managed and a control vlan at the same time ? We tried that before and got reports that clients could not connect ( rf guns).

Just trying to find out what went wrong here.

Thanks,

[Daniel_Starosci]

There were no issues with controller managed. The issues started when we changed the control vlan to 1.

WLAN's are setup for PSK. The clients see the SSID's, just cant connect. This was WLAN's for scan guns and computers\phones.

I will try and see what the AP's are doing.

[ckelly]

Changing the RFDomain over to controller-Managed shouldn't have anything to do with a client's ability to associate. To be clear, are you saying that *NO* clients in this reconfigured RFDomain can then connect after the change?

Is the WLAN setup for PSK or .1X authentication?
What exactly are you seeing happening from the client's end when they attempt to connect?

To get a view on what the APs are doing, you can also use the Event History panel in the Diagnostics tab (under the Fault Management sub-tab) in the UI.
Select the Access Point(s) tab at the top, pick the RFDomain and one of the APs that you think the client is attempting to associate and then click on the 'Fetch Historical Events' down at the bottom right. Sort the Timestamp column and then start looking for a client Message indicating authentication/Association failures.

[Daniel_Starosci]

We tried to put one of our rf-domains in a control vlan instead of controller managed. We changed the control vlan to 1 since that is the vlan the AP interface is. After the change, clients could not connect to the wireless.

Checking a couple things, everything looked good. All AP's adopted, doing a "show mint nei on " shows only AP's in that rf-domain.

Any ideas on what to check?

[Daniel_Starosci]

Thanks for the quick answer Chris.

[ckelly]

Yep, those would be rated for 128/RFDomain.
And to answer your other question, yes...you CAN have a mixture where the RFDomain Mgr is an AP and others use the controller (controller managed RFDomains)