Alan DeKok <[email protected]> wrote:
    > On Mar 28, 2022, at 9:00 AM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >> Well, this is not something I'd do as part of onboarding, but rather
    >> as part of _configuration_, and I agree that it would be better to
    >> just use IP for that.

    >   I'd argue that onboarding is just a special case of configuration.

Yes, many have tried to that, including NETMOD.
But it's a special case.
I don't mind using IP, but to do that, 

    >> The issue is that new SSIDs have to deployed over hundreds of access
    >> points.

    >   Use the normal SSID.  Unauthenticated EAP-TLS.  User ID of
    > "[email protected]".

But that could be even worse in many settings!
To do this safely means setting up layer-2 isolation for the device so that
it can't talk to (or attack) any other device (nor be attacked).

Or do you have some other idea on how to support this?

    >> This new "LAN" has to have VLANs deployed for it, and if done wrong,
    >> might need DHCPv4.

    >   Yes.  I'm not sure that VLANs are a limited resource, or are
    > difficult to provision.  GVRP has existed for a while...

It's not just the cost of the VLAN, it's the management functions associated
with them as well.   But, I'm just the messenger here:  I actually would
prefer this.

-- 
Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide




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