Wireless Access

We have a few 205 IAPs and they don't seem to respond to ARP requests from wired connection and neither from wired lan. Any idea what could be wrong with their configuration?

Hmm, I'm a newbie with Arubas, so I don't even know how to see that boot screen?

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@sohannin wrote:

We have a few 205 IAPs and they don't seem to respond to ARP requests from wired connection and neither from wired lan. Any idea what could be wrong with their configuration?

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When you say "arp requests", what are you trying to do?

Trying to ping them. They respond intermittently to ping, but not always. I see a lot of destination unreachable messages for packets destined to them.

Are those APS present in the CAM/ARP table of the layer 3 switch?

No, they don't seem to appear there either. Other devices from the same network are in the arp table.

Do you have the AP plugged into ethernet 0?

Yes, that is the case. They respond sometimes.

A correction: I checked again and they actually show up in the ARP table of the switch. When pinged e.g. from workstation, the workstation sends ARP broadcast, but never receiving response from the device attached to the same switch. I still see the same IAP sending broadcasts itself, asking for MAC of other devices (IAPs) on the same network.

I checked the IAP configuration again and noticed one thing. The native VLAN has been defined as 16. The management ip should be on VLAN 15, but the uplink management VLAN has been defined as 0, which based on manual means that the packets are being sent with VLAN 16, am I correct?

If the uplink vlan is 0, that means the management traffic is sent to the underlying network untagged.

Okay, that means they anyway end up in wrong VLAN since switch's default VLAN is 1. There are some notes in user guide stating "Ensure that the native VLAN of the IAP and uplink are not the same." That would solve my problem without configuring each IAP separately, but why is that a bad idea i.e. what breaks?

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Edit: how stupid of me. :) Even if I put the Native VLAN to 15, they would end up at VLAN 1 since that means they are being sent untagged. I would rather have to either configure each IAP with Uplink VLAN 15 or the switch port Untagged 15, right?

Do these APs use static ip addresses or do they get their addresses from DHCP? 

They use DHCP.

Update:

The uplink management VLAN was 0 and PVID of the switch was set to VLAN 10. The IAPs started responding correctly, when we changed the Uplink management VLAN to VLAN 10 from zero. The switch port is a hybrid port with Tagged VLANs 10 and 11.