Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Distance between antennas?

2008-10-31 Thread Rick Brown
Mounting the AP inside the building and mounting antenna's on the side of the building is how we've covered the majority of our outdoor spaces. Typically if you penetrate the building you're going to have some type of weatherproof junction box on the outside for the cables to pass through. If

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Distance between antennas?

2008-10-31 Thread Timothy Payne
You should probably think about putting some sort of lightning protection in-line as well, unless you are connecting the AP to the network via fiber. Even if the antenna isn't on the 'top' of the building, a close hit can potentially arc to the antenna. The $30-50 bucks for a good in-line

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows Wireless Clients- strange behavior after recent Windows Updates?

2008-10-31 Thread Dennis Xu
We have WiSMs 4.1.185 and we use web authentication and WPA/WPA2 enterprise. I haven't received similar complains from our users. I tested myself with a fully patched XP SP3 laptop. I tested coming out of sleep, roaming to different APs and different controllers, tested both web auth and WPA2,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Distance between antennas?

2008-10-31 Thread Manoj Abeysekera
Nathan, Just be aware that Back Lobe pattern of the RF propagation doesn't encroach inside to the building. As this will make people inside the building closer to the Antenna will connect to that one. Especially if you use two different VLAN's there will be some roaming issues. Unless your

Cisco lightweight APs and non-IOS DHCP for controller discovery

2008-10-31 Thread Sylvain Robitaille
posted to comp.dcom.sys.cisco and alt.internet.wireless, and mailed to The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues mailing list, with apologies to any who see multiple copies as a result ... This message is long (262 lines), and I apologize in advance for that. However, I hope that it will provide

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco lightweight APs and non-IOS DHCP for controller discovery

2008-10-31 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
This is the ISC DHCP configuration that we use to supply Cisco LWAPP AP's with their controller address. option space LWAPP; option LWAPP.controller code 241 = ip-address; class LWAPP { match option vendor-class-identifier; } subclass LWAPP Cisco AP c1130 { vendor-option-space LWAPP; option

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows Wireless Clients- strange behavior after recent Windows Updates?

2008-10-31 Thread James Nesbitt
Lee, Are you using GLBP? I recently had an issue with clients roaming from one AP to another AP on a different controller, but in the same mobility group. After a week or so of providing Cisco with logs and configs I was issued the following: Bugs CSCsv21441 and CSCsv21464 have been

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows Wireless Clients- strange behavior after recent Windows Updates?

2008-10-31 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
CSCsr40109 Bug Details http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fetchBu gDetailsbugId=CSCsl51486from=summary Mobility announcements not sent after an upgrade when wrong version Symptom: When a mobile station roams from an AP joined to one controller, to an AP

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco lightweight APs and non-IOS DHCP for controller discovery

2008-10-31 Thread Danner, Mearl
And if you speak hex: option space Cisco_LWAPP_AP; option Cisco_LWAPP_AP.server-address code 241 = string; class Cisco AP c1130 { match if option vendor-class-identifier = Cisco AP c1130; option vendor-class-identifier Cisco AP c1130; vendor-option-space Cisco_LWAPP_AP; option

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows Wireless Clients- strange behavior after recent Windows Updates?

2008-10-31 Thread jgrubb11
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