Controllerless Networks

Beating my head against the wall.  

I have a few AP-503H that I am trying to run in stand alone mode.  They only need to connect four Beaglebone SBC to the network, but I can't seem to get them to do that.  I have two that I am trying to work on and one in a lab.  

One of them only connects to the four SBCs.  No matter what I do, I can only get two of them to connect at a time at most.  It is not the same two either.  I have gotten all four to connect, but not at the same time.  I keep rebooting the SBCs trying to get a second, or third to connect and nothing happens.  Turn one off, and another might connect.  The SBCs only use 802.11g.  I would like to turn off the 5 GHz radios, but can't seem to figure out how to do that either.  

The other one, I was able to reach via network.  Over the weekend, it was powered down and back up.  Now, it will not ping the switch it is connected to and the switch can't ping it.  I have used a laptop to get on the wireless network to access the webpage and everything seems fine but it can't ping the gateway.  I have rebooted the wap and that did not help.  

I opened a case with HPE TAC, but it seems I did not buy foundation care so they won't help me.  My vendor missed an opportunity there.  

I have attached a version of one of my configs.  I am just at my wits end.  I have read portions of the manual over and over again trying to get this to work.  I am not trying to do anything that should be this hard.

Beating my head against the wall.  

I have a few AP-503H that I am trying to run in stand alone mode.  They only need to connect four Beaglebone SBC to the network, but I can't seem to get them to do that.  I have two that I am trying to work on and one in a lab.  

One of them only connects to the four SBCs.  No matter what I do, I can only get two of them to connect at a time at most.  It is not the same two either.  I have gotten all four to connect, but not at the same time.  I keep rebooting the SBCs trying to get a second, or third to connect and nothing happens.  Turn one off, and another might connect.  The SBCs only use 802.11g.  I would like to turn off the 5 GHz radios, but can't seem to figure out how to do that either.  

The other one, I was able to reach via network.  Over the weekend, it was powered down and back up.  Now, it will not ping the switch it is connected to and the switch can't ping it.  I have used a laptop to get on the wireless network to access the webpage and everything seems fine but it can't ping the gateway.  I have rebooted the wap and that did not help.  

I opened a case with HPE TAC, but it seems I did not buy foundation care so they won't help me.  My vendor missed an opportunity there.  

I have attached a version of one of my configs.  I am just at my wits end.  I have read portions of the manual over and over again trying to get this to work.  I am not trying to do anything that should be this hard.

So I got the quote for Foundation Care that is supposed to allow me to contact HPE and ask questions.  I was shocked when I saw the price of the support contract.  It was $10. per unit and I only have four of them.  I was only asking about one.  HPE would not help me over $10.  I get that rules are rules, but a major company not giving me help over $10 is a bit much. Not going to continue the rant.  

Anyway, I have isolated the SSID I need to use to connect to the Beaglebones to 2.4 GHz and that did not help.  I used a packet sniffer to try to learn something.  I see the Beaglebone send out a wireless broadcast and all the nearby WAPs respond.  What I don't see is the Beaglebone responding to any of them.  I am not sure if it has to do with the way I am doing the filtering or the packet capture or it the end device is just not responding.

We have always believed that the issue might be the Beaglebones, but were hoping that the new Aruba WAP would improve their access.  Not sure that is the case.  We are in the process of buying new USB WiFi dongles so maybe that will help.  Too bad replacing them is not one of the options on the table.

Beating my head against the wall.  

I have a few AP-503H that I am trying to run in stand alone mode.  They only need to connect four Beaglebone SBC to the network, but I can't seem to get them to do that.  I have two that I am trying to work on and one in a lab.  

One of them only connects to the four SBCs.  No matter what I do, I can only get two of them to connect at a time at most.  It is not the same two either.  I have gotten all four to connect, but not at the same time.  I keep rebooting the SBCs trying to get a second, or third to connect and nothing happens.  Turn one off, and another might connect.  The SBCs only use 802.11g.  I would like to turn off the 5 GHz radios, but can't seem to figure out how to do that either.  

The other one, I was able to reach via network.  Over the weekend, it was powered down and back up.  Now, it will not ping the switch it is connected to and the switch can't ping it.  I have used a laptop to get on the wireless network to access the webpage and everything seems fine but it can't ping the gateway.  I have rebooted the wap and that did not help.  

I opened a case with HPE TAC, but it seems I did not buy foundation care so they won't help me.  My vendor missed an opportunity there.  

I have attached a version of one of my configs.  I am just at my wits end.  I have read portions of the manual over and over again trying to get this to work.  I am not trying to do anything that should be this hard.