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Access point connection issue

Dear all

I have new Cisco access point After I configured it and gave it IP address in our IP address range, name and password
and everything is good and I tried to connect to it directly through my laptop and its working.

But once I connected it to any network port in my company this port became disabled!!
I'm checking in the Cisco switch in the server room and I'm finding the port disabled!!!

What is the reason?

Thanks & Regards

Ferruccio Accalai

Are you sure that the IP Address you've assigned to the AP was free in the Network?
Is the Server configured as DHCP server?
Seems that the AP IP overrides some other IP

Andy Bartkiewicz

Sounds like port security is turned on, on the switch

max_the_king

Hi,
this usually happens when you plug in an access point into the switch into a port set in "access" mode: since the access point is tipically flooding all the MAC address from its wifi clients, Cisco switch set that port as "disabled", interpreting that as an attack.

You just need to set the port where you plug th access point in "trunk" mode

max

Mohammed Elsherif

ASKER

Actually, I'm sure that the IP address I was given it was free and I tried before to configure new access point and it was working good without any changes in the Cisco switch.

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