2. Question / Workgroup bridge parent command (Stalder Dominic)
Helo Dominic, I was happy to refresh my memory on this. I had a Root vs. Repeater setup. It must be the same. They key here is to test it if and see if the log gives you feedback on what you need to know :D And this was the case now. The answer according to my test below is: No it won´t try anything else if the only parent it has is not reachable. cannot associate: Not specified parent (from 003a.9969.2c20) Im my example I had no parents configured. Then configured a bogus parent MAC (see output below) and it couldn´t associate to anything. When I entered the real root AP mac as parent 2, it immitiately associated to the "old" root. RepeaterAP#sh dot11 ass 802.11 Client Stations on Dot11Radio0: SSID [BOB] : MAC Address IP address Device Name Parent State 003a.9969.2c20 192.168.1.14 ap1240-Parent RootAP - Assoc RepeaterAP#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. RepeaterAP(config)#int dot0 RepeaterAP(config-if)#parent 1 0000.1111.2222 RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:10:50.447: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to reset RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:10:50.470: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to down RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:10:51.447: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to down RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:10:52.445: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface FastEthernet0, changed state to up *Mar 10 18:10:52.447: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface BVI1, changed state to down *Mar 10 18:10:53.445: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0, changed state to up RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:10:53.447: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface BVI1, changed state to down RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:10:58.976: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface BVI1, changed state to up *Mar 10 18:10:59.976: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface BVI1, changed state to up RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:11:00.976: %DOT11-4-CANT_ASSOC: Interface Dot11Radio0, cannot associate: Not specified parent (from 003a.9969.2c20) RepeaterAP(config-if)# RepeaterAP(config-if)#parent 2 003a.9969.2c20 RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:11:37.120: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to reset *Mar 10 18:11:37.305: %DOT11-4-UPLINK_ESTABLISHED: Interface Dot11Radio0, Associated To AP RootAP 003a.9969.2c20 [None WPA PSK] RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:11:37.305: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to up *Mar 10 18:11:38.305: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to up RepeaterAP(config-if)# *Mar 10 18:11:39.304: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface FastEthernet0, changed state to down *Mar 10 18:11:40.304: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0, changed state to down RepeaterAP(config-if)#do show run int dot0 Building configuration... Current configuration : 338 bytes ! interface Dot11Radio0 no ip address no ip route-cache ! encryption vlan 150 mode ciphers tkip ! encryption vlan 1 mode ciphers tkip ! ssid BOB ! ssid client ! parent 1 0000.1111.2222 parent 2 003a.9969.2c20 speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0 station-role repeater end ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:27:10 +0000 From: Stalder Dominic <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [CCIE Wireless] Question / Workgroup bridge parent command Message-ID: <c97acd8b.2f19%[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi there If I have to configure a workgroup bridge with a preferred parent and I configure the following: int dot 0 parent xxxx.yyyy.zzzz Will the WGB even try to associate to any other parent (not specified in the parent list), when the first parent is not available? Because in the configuration guide is stated and this is not clear for me, based on the text below: (Optional) Enter the MAC address for the access point to which the workgroup bridge should associate. ? You can enter MAC addresses for up to four parent access points. The workgroup bridge attempts to associate to MAC address 1 first; if that access point does not respond, the workgroup bridge tries the next access point in its parent list. Regards Dominic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </archives/ccie_wireless/attachments/20110211/91adaf73/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CCIE_Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://onlinestudylist.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ccie_wireless End of CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 23, Issue 12 ********************************************* _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
