Forgot to take pics so I could attach, but here is a problem I am seeing 
(one of many with this equipment).

Have a Cisco AP352 with power amp on towers, using ABTotals as clients.  
The AB sees the Cisco fine (-55 dbm) and the Cisco sees the AB ok (Signal 
Quality is 35%-40% yes we have some interference...., but still this is 
about a -70 to -77 dbm)  and besides, that isn't what I am here to 
discuss....

We have patched with new firmware all of our equipment.  And I double 
checked this one.  We gave the SBTotal a static IP (192.168.101.14)...  
subnet 255.255.255.0, default gateway 0.0.0.0.  Everything was honky 
dorey, till I changed it from hard coded ESSI and BSSI codes to a roaming 
ESSI only (no BSSI)....  it disassociated, and re-associated (saw on 
Cisco logs).  But when it re-associated, it came back with a public IP 
address that only my clients PC's should be receiving (I have a DHCP 
server dishing those out).  And now I am going to have to create a new 
tunnel through my front end on that subnet so I can talk to the device 
(pain in the ars..), also all my monitoring and keep alive systems for 
the device has just gone to sqwuat.  

I have noticed public IP's on associated devices before, but I had always 
thought, oh...  my tech forgot to set it, or forgot to upgrade, or 
somehow the Cisco is seeing the IP of the clients PC.. but now I am sure 
that the frickin' Airbridge device ignored the static IP and pulled a 
DHCP lease (checked the logs.,. tada there is its MAC address).  This 
could explain ALLOT of my customer issues since we all know these devices 
disassociate unless you keep them alive, and all my keep alives are based 
on private IP's....

I haven't heard anything from SBTech on this forum lately, but their 
input (or flat out denial) would be of interest...

Scott

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