During the introduction of Wing5.0, RFS cluster with DHCP redundancy was one of the features, now it is not recommended as per Wing 5.4 release notes. Any idea when will it supported? Is there any workaround if it will just be used for a POC ?
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Hi, Are you referring to the following statement (I pulled this from page 22 of Motorola_Enterprise_WLAN_WiNG_v5_4_3_Release_Notes.pdf) Log in to Controller 2, setup an SVI with a static IP address and make sure you can ping Controller 1 IP address. DHCP is not recommended for clustering since the IP address may change later on and the cluster may not form.
What they are saying here only relates to how the IP address of a RFS that is used to form a cluster is configured. It is saying that it is not recommended to use DHCP to set up the IP address of the SVI ( IP address of the RFS on a specific vlan / interface) that is going to be used as the IP address that that RFS uses in a cluster. Since the 2 RFS's communicate via Layer 3 on that IP address to keep the cluster established, it would quit working if for some reason one of the devices IP address (obtained via DHCP) changed for some reason! This IS NOT saying that you can't set up an RFS as a DHCP server for client devices (when using a cluster).