Cisco 2960 Access Point Switch Config

[Kimbie]

Hi,

We have a number of Cisco 500 and 505 POE switches, each switch can have 4 - 6 Motorola wireless access points and in the smart ports section of the GUI we have to set them to access point for wireless devices to work correctly.

However we are having to hang some of these AP's of a bog standard 2960 that has no GUI, does anyone know what commands we need to apply to the port to set it for an access point?

Thanks

Kimbie

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

What does an access point need on its switchport?
Are we talking a single access (untagged) VLAN? Or a 802.1q trunk?

You can telnet to the switch?

enable?

conf t

Now you go to the interface you want to configure:
eg
interface g0/1
switchport mode access
sw acc vlan 100
no shut

or
int g0/1
sw mo tr en dot1q
sw mode trunk
sw trunk allow vlan 100,100,300,etc...

 

[Kimbie]

On the Cisco 500 range of switches which are POE ones, on the smartport wizard you have to set them to be an "Access Point" or you get issues when you have multiple access points with the same SSID and wireless devices not being able to connect.

I need to know if there is a similar setting we need to apply to the 2960 via the CLI

Thanks

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Do you have access to a command line on the 500? Do a "show run" to find out what clicking on "access point" actually does.

This is why nobody in their right mind uses GUIs - if you don't know what they're doing, you're not really in control of what's going on.

 

[chieftan]

I am with Vince on this one.....

Complete a "show run" from the cli and paste it here (omitting ny addresses you dont want people to know about).

Shy away from the GUI if possible, not good.

As to any WAPs that I have set up, the switch has no responsibility for any SSIDs ot anything, the Wireless Controller takes care of that. The switch would just pass the traffic as you want it to, via a single VLAN or .1q trunk as mentioned above, dependant upon your requirements.

 

[Kimbie]

The CLI of the 500 switches is totally different to standard Cisco. The Cisco 500 does not have a CLI not even a console port, the updated models do, but they use totally different commands on the ports to what we would expect

 

[chieftan]

Okay, well, from a normal switch perspective you would use VLANs for seperation and allow the Wireless controller or whichever Manager you utilise to control the input (would be almost like a AAA system) of the mobile devices (Phones, laptops, iPads etc)

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Yes, I think I heard that before as well - the 500 doesn't give you a CLI.

Just reading this:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalystexpress500/release_12.2_25_fy/user/guide/ug.pdf

I wouldn't worry about the "Access Point" smart ports setting. It probably does some autoQoS, spanning tree, a few things like that.

Just decide what VLAN(s) your access point needs to be on and configure the switcports as either trunks of access as per my example above.
You can configure spanning-tree portfast [trunk] if you like, too.