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Introduction

Wireless controller (WLC) is not required to have a working AP, even when there are multiple AP present; the consequence is that you have to manually manage each AP including those wireless clients that can only connect to just one AP (no roaming feature).

AP has two modes, Autonomous and Lightweight. Autonomous is basically non-WLC mode, you have to be verse of IOS CLI in order to manage. Lightweight is WLC mode, that you have to use WLC in order to manage the AP.

Joining AP into WLC typically require the following
* AP model compatibility with WLC specification
* AP is setup of having static IP address as the BVI1 interface (management) IP, assuming DHCP services are not in place to assign IP address to the AP in question
Once AP joins the WLC, AP automatically download and install necessary specification; IOS image version, configuration, and of course client connectivity. In other words, you don't need to manually push full-blown setup onto the AP if you plan to join the AP into WLC; WLC takes care of that automatically.

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last modified: 2016-09-26 17:06:16