A customer wants to mount AP6521s on vehicles and connect to wired APs in different subnets via MESH. Of course DHCP is the best choice to enable those vehicle mounted AP to connect to different subnets, but do our AP have the L3 mobility feature like MU? i.e. a mobile wireless AP has a fixed IP, and it can connect to wired APs in different subnets. If it is possible, will there be a lot of extra network flow?
Thank you!
Junhua
2 Replies
Are MUs going to use 802.1X security? In other words, is any Radius server involved in this scenario? If so, keep in mind that using DHCP on "mobile" APs might be a little problem. Radius has to know authenticators' (APs') IP addresses in order to validate their requests. Yes, of course, one can specify IP ranges or even whole subnets as valid clients, but this is would mean a security decrease.
For what your trying to do you would be much better served to use a Client Bridge which acts more like a MU rather than an Access Point acting as a Mesh Client. A Mesh Client AP is designed for static deployments where the VLANs and subnets don't change! Regards, Kevin