Splitting our the vlans per dorm as you have suggested increases the
configuration and management complexity in a centralized controller environment
and can present roaming challenges where dorm users can hear each other.
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Network Engineer
IT Network Services
(434)
Even on on our wired side we have multiple L2 networks in the same dorm
building. Our dorms are substantially bigger (800+ residents). When you
only have two /16's for the entire campus and a desire not to do NAT, you
have to make compromises.
In addition, most of our dorms are right next to
The issue here is that students are here to do academic work, and the
network needs to support that first. But I think that while they are doing
that academic work they are still... here. This is their home, and we can't
forget that. If it were just another corporate network we would do things
Would be nice if Apple updated Bonjour or ditched it and got with the fact that
enterprise networks are not built on Airports and single subnets...
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Amen to that!!
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Like that's going to happen!
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On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Lee H Badman lhbad...@syr.edu wrote:
Would be nice if Apple updated Bonjour or ditched it and got with the fact
that enterprise networks are not built on Airports and single subnets...
