I have to apologize. I meant to say that devices (laptops/mobile devices) that connect to an AP at L1 or L3 get a DHCP IP address from the L2 scope instead of the local scope. The APs at L1 and L3 actually get IP addresses from their respective scopes. Helper addresses are configured...
Have a network with three locations, L1 (HQ), L2 (MFG1), and L3 (MFG2). Each location gets its DHCP addresses (three different scopes) from a DHCP server at L1. My Cisco 5508 controller is at L2. I have Cisco APs at all three locations, but they all get DHCP addresses from the scope at L2...
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