Wireless Access

Hello, i try to use a mesh network with iap 325. I read several tutorial and it doesn't work. No ap are portal or point. I have only N/A in the mesh mode column and when i use the command "show ap mesh link". I have the message "not available in this mode". The iap is in cluster mode and i can"t  change it. Is it possible to do a mesh network with iap 325 rw ?

Best reguards.

It should.  Can you try this guide here?  https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Controller-less-WLANs/How-to-Configure-a-basic-Instant-mesh/ta-p/205027

hat code version are you running, and do all three show up as a single VC? Do you see all three up in the GUI?

We saw this too in the lab. You have to reboot them after they have all joined the cluster then they will show up in portal mode. A word of caution. With IAP you can not designate a portal or point AP manually. They will automatically elect which mode to be in depending on their connection. You also have to have VLAN 1 as the native on the wired port of the point AP if you want to use it as a trunk. 

If the switch on the portal side has BPDU guard enabled it will shut down the port when the point AP connects and starts sending packets which will cause that AP to change to a point instead. Eventually every portal could become a point and then you have a giant mess...

We have had this happen and Aruba was as surprised as we were. Just make sure your BPDU guard is off.

if you are using version 8.4 ad later you have much better control over mesh configuration. check this

https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Controllerless-Networks/Wireless-Mesh-enhancements-with-Instant-8-4/m-p/536790#M23080

Thanks for all responses. After reading it and look my config, i notice that i have :

extended-ssid configured :no
extended-ssid active     :yes
I disabled the extended-ssid in the menu system config, reboot the ap but i have always :

extended-ssid configured :no
extended-ssid active     :yes
may be it's the problem, how can i disabled the "extended-ssid active" ?