He initiated the wireless controller CLI mode.

It was a flood. The 3850 was flexing its muscles. Because the switch was locally terminating the traffic, the latency was near zero. The APs didn't have to traverse a distant controller across the core network; they were talking to the brain right here in the rack.

He patted the top of the chassis. "Good work, tin can," he whispered.

4.5/5

The 3850 didn't reply with words, but the steady, rhythmic blink of the "System" LED—solid green—was all the thanks he needed. The network was alive.

Elias typed show ap summary again.

Elias sat down. He needed to bypass the logic, reassure the APs, and force the handshake. He needed to dive into the WLC configuration hidden within the IOS-XE operating system.