Ian, What issues are you having with the wired ports? Are you testing 802.1x on the wired ports? We are specifically interested in how it handles flexauth and multi-authentication.
> On Oct 25, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Ian Lyons <ily...@rollins.edu> wrote: > > 8.2.120.11 is the minimum version I would recommend. 1810 (in my opinion) > came out of the factory not completely baked. > > We bought the first batch of 1810’s off the assembly line and they did not > have a means to talk to the controller (DNS would not work nor DNS options). > We had to manually point them at our controller. However, *if* you bought a > recent batch (after Sept) I have been told they have reimaged all the AP’s at > the assembly line and that issue has been resolved. > > Other issues we have seen (and in 8.2.130.0 most have been resolved) are AP’s > rebooting frequently. More recent code upgrades have fixed that issue, > however we are still having an issue with the 1810’s and the wired ports. > > As to redundant WLC’s I would go to 8.2.121.11 at a minimum, there is a WLC > issue with SSO as well as the 1810 issue that I found (the hard way) to be > the minimum version to start at. > > Things are improving. However, 500 1810’s deployed = challenging times. > > The good news is, is that the students memories are short and I expect once > these issues get ironed out, smooth sailing. > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Devyn Moore > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:49 AM > To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question about Cisco 1810w APs in residential > buildings > > All, > > Our housing department wants us to look at these for wide-scale deployment in > 11 residence halls within the next 2-3 years due to cost reduction in cable > installation with our previous designs. This will be a one AP per room > deployment utilizing current wiring infrastructure, where Aps were previously > in the hallways (2600, 3500). We’re planning to configure the cells to a > lower transmit power as well as assigning channels based on zero occupancy > with 20MHz channels. Our ability to get into these buildings in order to > resolve rogue issues is severely limited already because we are required to > have a Residential Technician (from the housing department) with us when > visiting student rooms. That’s only going to get worse when we lose > visibility that we currently have with our current deployments in the halls. > We’re also not planning to enable the ethernet ports because those aren’t in > scope for the Proof of Concept due to crashed timelines provided by the > department. > > We’re currently running 8.0.133.0 and have been incredibly stable (no AVC, no > IPv6, 802.1x for primary SSID, web auth guest). We don’t use ISE, but use > FreeRADIUS for wireless auth. We’re running two pairs of Hot/Standby 8510s > with a mixture of 2600, 2700, 3500, 3600 and 3700 series APs, but would like > to start integrating 2800 and 3800 series APs – separate from the housing > request. I am targeting 8.2.121.7 for our upgrade in order to get around some > bugs that I’ve seen mentioned here as we also start testing 2800/3800 in our > environment. > > Has anyone had any issues with 1810w in dense cell deployments like > residential hall buildings? Issues with damaged devices due to installation > locations on wall approximately 1.5ft (45cm) from the floor? Have there been > any issues with SSO HA with 8.2.121.7? Anything else you’d like to share > about the 1810ws? > > Thanks in advance for the feedback. > -- > Devyn Moore > Network Enterprise Systems Team Leader > Campus Wireless Network Engineer > Information Technology Services > http://directory.uark.edu/people/devyn > <http://directory.uark.edu/people/devyn> > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/ <http://www.educause.edu/groups/>. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/ <http://www.educause.edu/groups/>. Dylan Jacob | Sr. Network Architect | Rice University - Networking, Telecommunication, and Data Center | t +1.713-348-4216 | f +1.713-348-6009 | e d...@rice.edu <mailto:dylan.t.ja...@rice.edu> | ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
