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kylehouk
Visitor III
October 22, 2025
Question

FortiAP Profile Issues

  • October 22, 2025
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I have been testing some changes to my FortiAP 231F profile over the past couple of days and the only thing I can say is.... are the FortiAP profiles broken?

 

I have been testing and make changes over the past week and have noticed several concerning "issues" or trends.

 

  1. Consistently, anytime a change is made to the FortiAP profile all APs assigned to that profile reset their 2.4 and 5Ghz channels to Channel 1 and Channel 100 respectively.
  2. Even after manually rebooting the APs, APs that are right next to each other will select the same channels.
  3. Does 80Mhz wide channel width work on the 231F? How can I verify? As the FortiGate does not clearly report what the channel width it is using.

 

Devices in question:

  • 1 FortiGate 101F running FortiOS 7.2.12 build1761 
  • FP231F APs running firmware v7.2.0 build0424

4 replies

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
October 22, 2025

What is the firmware version of the affected FAPs?

AEK
kylehouk
kylehoukAuthor
Visitor III
October 22, 2025

All 9 APs are running firmware v7.2.0 build0424

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
October 22, 2025

Your FortiOS & FortiAP are at a good firmware version.

I don't find similar bugs in the release notes of your FortiOS and FortiAP versions.

Can you try with a new profile that you build from scratch? Is it the same behavior?

AEK
kylehouk
kylehoukAuthor
Visitor III
October 22, 2025

I am currently using the FortiGate default policy and have been making changes to that profile.

I will create a new profile and test that out tonight.

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