RT-N66U as AP + Fortigate & Cisco Switch issue

[Daniel-san]

Good day gentleman, i'm new here so please bare with me.

I currently have a Fortigate 110C as my router/firewall.

This bad boy has 8 100MB/s LAN ports & 2 1000MB/s WAN ports. - This isn't ideal for me but it works because I don't use it as a switch I have a cisco 3750 that I use to feed my house with it's 24Ports of gigabit goodness.

following me so far?

I've replaced my old POS monoprice 2.4ghz Access Point with this new fancy Asus RT-N66U because my new house has over saturated wifi and I wanted 5GHz.


anyways, my issue is that for my Asus AP to actually have internet; it needs to be plugged in my fortigate router in a 100MB port. if I plugged it into my cisco 3750; it just doesn't work. I can't ping the AP anymore, and if I'm connected to it's wifi - no internet

I don't get it.. any other device that I plug in my switch works fine.

my cisco is configured extremely simple, my first 12 ports are all configured:
interface range g1/0/2 - 12
switchport access vlan2
switchport mode access
no shutdown

can someone help me out??


also.. I find it strange that the the AP does work (in the fortigate) it needs to be connected via the WAN port. that seems odd to me.

please help.

 

[Daniel-san]

so turns out i'm a newb.. and I didn't save (wr) my configs, and with the help of bad timing I thought it wsn't working.

but in the end, with persavirance I did get it working.


originaly, it wasn't because I used the GUI interface on the cisco switch to "tell" my ports that "desktops" were plugged in them. little did I know that programmed my ports with pre-defined macros and added security settings that I didn't care for.

but after I removed all that, and just enabled my ports with: "switchport access vlan2
switchport mode access" it worked.