Managing Cisco device via MAC

[luckybob34]

Is there anyway to manage a cisco device given its mac address?

I recently upgraded my network and now I am unable to manage my cisco wireless APs. My APs still function and provide connectivity, but they are sub interfaced and need to be upgraded with the network changes. The management IP is no longer on the same vlan. I can see connectivity through CDP neighbor, and as I said I can connect to the AP and get network connectivity, just can't manage it.

Thanks

 

[vipergg]

There is no way via a mac address . Maybe you could explain what you changed on the ap and or the switch side to break this . If the ap has subinterfaces then you must be trunking.

 

[luckybob34]

It is not broke, per say. I just cannot manage my wireless APs.

The port to the APs are trunked with vlan 1 and voice vlan. With the network upgrade we moved all networks off vlan 1 and assigned the different subnets their own vlan. For example, 192.168.0.1 was on vlan 1, but now it is the gateway for vlan 4. The APs management ip was 192.168.0.10, but it is looking for connectivity on vlan 1, so you cannot manage the device now. I kept internet connectivity through vlan 1, so the APs still operate for data and voice.

I am just trying to get around this without having to physically go to each AP and reconfigure it.

 

[baddos]

Well you could set your laptop or such to a static address on that subnet and manage it that way.

 

[luckybob34]

I know, but as with most APs they are not easy to get to.

Looks like I am stuck with ye old console cable.

Thanks for the reponse.

 

[baddos]

You don't need to physially get to the AP though, as long as your admin host pc was on the same vlan that the AP is on.

 

[vipergg]

Yeah you will have to get at them on the console then create a sub interface for vlan 4 on the fastethernet interface to be trunked and you should be able to get at them after that if the address range was changed to vlan 4 on your layer 3 routing device.