Wireless Access

SO I've conigured a few campus APs to use as site survey AP's.

Since these AP's where not Instant AP's I did this the old way by configuring them as always up remote APs.

Configured an open SSID: survey.

wlan ssid-profile "survey"
   essid "survey"
!

The virutal-ap profile I changed to be bridge mode and have rap-always -up support:

wlan virtual-ap "survey"
   aaa-profile "survey"
   ssid-profile "survey"
   vlan 1
   forward-mode bridge
   rap-operation always
!

Next the AP was configured as remote AP (username+passwd) with fixed ip address and allowed to reboot.

Now, in the field.

If we supply it with POE+ethernet it works fine

If we supply only POE it keeps rebooting because it can't setup the ipsec tunnel:

AP rebooted Wed Dec 31 16:09:07 PST 1969; Unable to set up IPSec tunnel after 85 tries

So, do I HAVE to provide an ethernet interface or is there a way around this?

You need to provision it with a static ip address..

They have been configured with fixed ip addresses.

When connected to a switch (that is not connected to anything but the survey AP), everything works fine.

Only when we only use the POE injector as the survey guys require (they understandably dont want to haul and power an additional switch) the AP comes up, is pingable, but reboots again and again after a few minutes.

Thinking about making a rj45 loopback plug to plug in to the dataport of said POE injector, but offcourse missing the **bleep** crimping tool here. :/

RJ45 loopback plug in dataport of poe injector doesn't help either.

Hi Koen,

Once the RAP is up on the controller, could you try changing number of IPSEC retries in the AP system profile to 0 & then test it in site survey mode.

Problem solved... you rock!