Hello all...
We are a largish educational organisation in New South Wales, Australia. We are setting up a number of branch training offices around the Sydney area and one of the requirements is WiFi.
We presently run eight 7210 controllers at each of our main sites. Users authenticate via a centralised Radius server. The Radius server is not managed by me.
The new brach offices presently are using some older AP135, had them spare from recent upgrades elsewhere, and I have them provisioned on one of our 7210 at head office.
I am thinking it would be better to remove the AP135's and replace them with IAP's and have the IAP's use the centralise Radius server for authentication. Then the network traffic would terminate on the local master IAP and not have to be tunneld to head office. So far so good.
Now our centralised Radius server won't accept authentication requests from remote devices unless those devices are authorised on the server before hand.
So my question is this, what happens when the master IAP fails and the a second IAP, one the same subnet, takes over as master. Does the IP of the failed IAP get used by the new master?
I am by no means an expert on Aruba Wireless and for the most part I lear by trial and error. Yep I have setup and IAP with the credentials to talk to the Radius server and got no joy with authentication.
Regards and thansk to all
Col Thompson
Sydney Australia