My feeling is that if your SSIDs are secure (auth, encr, etc) enough (subjective based on your environment) then either put them in the same vlan or route the wireless vlan around and back into it somehow.
If your wireless is very open, then treat it like a guest vlan or even like the public internet because that is really what it is. We currently require fac/staff to login to the wireless, they are in a separate vlan, but they can get to all the same resources (almost) as if they were plugged in. It should also be treated as any other "standard" for resource access. We do not "support" personal servers etc but we have print servers and network file servers. We will ensure they can get to the "supported servers". _________________________ Thank you, Gregory R. Scholz Director of Telecommunications Information Technology Group Keene State College (603)358-2070 --Lead, follow, or get out of the way. (author unknown) -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless vs. wired layer 2 connectivity dilemma 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Dickson Network Analyst OIT - Network Systems and Services University of Massachusetts Amherst ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
