Hi all,
We currently put all wireless clients into a unique set of wireless-only
vlans. As we expand our coverage into more staff/faculty areas on
campus, however, we are start to get the same questions surrounding
layer 2 connectivity.
Specifically, clients want to print to their local printers and access
their local shares on devices which reside on their building's wired
infrastructure, but connect their laptops via wireless while in the
office. Novell, AD, local shares, shared L2 local printers, etc., all
face the same issues.
From an IT perspective this could be seen as a feature, but I'm not
sure the clients are agreeing. How are others dealing with L2
connectivity issues? We are not sure if simply putting the SSID in the
building native 'wired' vlan is the best practice. Telling them to "plug
back in" isn't getting a lot of traction, either.
Thanks,
Mike
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Michael Dickson
Network Analyst
OIT - Network Systems and Services
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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