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MontanaMike
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AP-Fail

Good morning,

 

Since upgrading to 7.4.3 on my 601E firewall cluster, my AP's (only 9 of them) keep dropping offline with no good explanation in the logs that I can tell.  I never had a problem with the previous version I was at which was 7.4.1.  A reboot of the AP (either by resetting the POE on the switch port or by unplugging and plugging back in) will bring the AP back online and connected with clients but then randomly (could be hours or days later) it will drop back off.

My Fortigate cluster is stable (no HA changes) and seems to be normal.  The APs are all 221Es running 7.4.2 firmware.  The only log entry I see that seems to be related to when they drop is:


Action ap-fail
Reason Control message maximal retransmission limit reached


Profile resv-dflt-FP221E5519035229
Physical AP ap-2b-public
Mesh Mode mesh root ap
Message Failure happened on AP ap-2b-public.

 

I did find a document (https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiAP/Troubleshooting-Tip-After-a-failover-FortiAP-devices-fail-...) and increased the timeout on the Fortigates so we'll see how that goes but I didn't have to do that on the previous versions.

 

# config wireless-controller global

set max-retransmit 15

 

# config wireless-controller timers

set echo-interval 100


Any help would be much appreciated. 

-Mike

-Mike
1 Solution
hbac
Staff
Staff

Hi @MontanaMike,

 

It seems to match a known bug ID 0955764. However, you need to open a ticket to verify if the matches or not. 

 

Regards, 

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kunal_shahasuno

We are facing the Issue of AP disconnection Fortigate version 7.6.3 FOrtiAP Version 7.6.2 and 7.4.4

 

What colud me the issue

 

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