General Wism Guidelines; Configuring The Supervisor - Cisco OL-8335-02 Configuration Manual

Chapter 4 Configuring Controller Settings

General WiSM Guidelines

Keep these general guidelines in mind when you add a WiSM to your network:
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Configuring the Supervisor

Log into the switch CLI and, beginning in Privileged Exec mode, follow these steps to configure the
supervisor to support the WiSM:
Command
Step 1 configure terminal
Step 2
interface vlan
Step 3 ip address ip-address gateway
Step 4 ip helper-address ip-address
Step 5 end
Step 6
interface port-channel 1
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b.
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d.
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The switch ports leading to the controller service port are automatically configured and cannot be
manually configured.
The switch ports leading to the controller data ports should be configured as edge ports to avoid
sending unnecessary BPDUs.
The switch ports leading to the controller data ports should not be configured with any additional
settings (such as port channel or SPAN destination) other than settings necessary for carrying data
traffic to and from the controllers.
The WiSM controllers support Layer 3 LWAPP mode, but they do not support Layer 2 LWAPP
mode.
Chapter 3 for information on configuring the WiSM's ports and interfaces.
switchport trunk
encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk native vlan
vlan
switchport mode trunk
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Configuring the Supervisor 720 to Support the WiSM
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Create a VLAN to communicate with the data ports on the WiSM
and enter interface config mode.
Assign an IP address and gateway to the VLAN.
Assign a helper address to the VLAN.
Return to global config mode.
Configure a port-channel to bundle the automatically created
Gigabit interfaces 1-4 into an etherchannel.
Configure the previously created port-channel interfaces as trunk
ports. For the native VLAN on the ports, configure the VLAN that
you created for communicating with the WiSM data ports.
Return to global config mode.
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