VLANS on WAPS 1

[mugs82]

I am a Cisco novice.

I have several Cisco 1200 series Wireless Access Points in various spots in a 2 building campus. The buildings are connected via T1 and 2 Cisco 1600 routers. I have 3 Cisco 3500XL's and 1 Cisco 4006XL. All switches and routers are running IOS. They are connected via fiber.

I would like all of my WAPs to be on a separate VLAN using a different subnet than the one on my LAN so I can use a wireless gateway appliance for authentication. Can I just configure a the VLAN on the WAPS or do I have to configure the switches as well? I have been able to configure a VLAN on one of the 3500's, but it says it's administratively down.

I have looked for clear documentation at Cisco and online, but haven't found any.

None of my switches will have more than 2 WAPs attached to them. How do I assign individual ports on these switches to a vlan?

Thank you ahead of time for your response.

 

[tharder]

Didn't know if you knew the 1200's have VLAN capabilites as well. We use VLAN1(cisco default) as the management vlan for the WAP(no wireless access) and the second vlan for wireless customer data. This keeps your management traffic on your "secured" network. The connection from the WAP to the switch is a dot1q trunk(VL1,VL2,1003-1005, etc). The switches are then dot1q trunked together and then to the router. Make sure you have appropriate router code for that. IOS-plus I think..
Our configurations are in a single location so we don't have to route that type traffic between sites although with a bit of thought I'm sure thats possible..
Are you looking to make the WAP all on the SAME subnet or just distinct from you internal network?

 

[mugs82]

Thank you for your response. I want the WAPs to be on a different subnet.