Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-14 Thread Joseph Clark
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Daniel Eklund
On Sep 10, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Philippe Hanset wrote: Putting all the APs in the same L2 domain has been done before, and I would only recommend it for the smallest deployments. Broadcast traffic, on the wireless and the wireline side, will absolutely ruin performance, as you pointed out,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Stan Brooks
presentation documents to the list when they exist. Ethan Kind regards, Frank -Original Message- From: Ethan Sommer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:08 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Frank Bulk
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution Ethan, I can't speak to how Meru handles L3 roaming, but I can tell you that Aruba's L3 roaming method works quite well, and without any software installed on the client. Aruba handles the L3 roaming internally using a technique

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Philippe Hanset
A few of you have asked about measures that we have taken to control broadcast. Here is a list: First, some numbers: We have today beween 20 and 60 packets per second of Broadcast/Multicast, this is for a subnet that has 950+ APs and up to 3000 concurrent users and growing, one layer 2 domain.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
Philippe Hanset wrote: : -Enable P-node in WINS server, which limits Netbios traffic P-mode must be enabled on the clients, since the NBNS (aka WINS server) is a P-mode server by definition. If the clients listen to DHCP, however, it's easy enough to set the client via the netbios-node-type

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Philippe Hanset wrote: It has been mentioned that devices with less potent CPUs have a harder time to deal with big broadcast traffic. (our Cisco SE likes to remind me about that. Is it to sell a LWAPP system, or is it a fact?) Um, I seem to recall huge subnets on

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Frank Bulk
: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution Putting all the APs in the same L2 domain has been done before, and I would only recommend it for the smallest deployments. Broadcast traffic, on the wireless and the wireline side, will absolutely ruin performance, as you pointed out, can

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-10 Thread Ethan Sommer
-Original Message- From: Ethan Sommer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:08 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution We have just deployed over 120 Linksys WRT54GLs in our dorms. So far, everything

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-10 Thread Philippe Hanset
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:08 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution We have just deployed over 120 Linksys WRT54GLs in our dorms. So far, everything has been working well. We used dd-wrt modified slightly

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-09 Thread Frank Bulk
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:08 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution We have just deployed over 120 Linksys WRT54GLs in our dorms. So far, everything has been working well. We used dd-wrt modified

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-08-29 Thread Frank Bulk
: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:44 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution All, I'm polling the list about an idea that I would like to test in our dormatories. If anyone has done a similar project out there, would you mind sharing your