Michael, One of the caveat of mixing wireless and wired on the same VLAN for a builing is IP contention. Your number of wired ports is fixed, your number of clients on APs can vary greatly. You will have to redesign the IP assignment of all those wired networks! What's wrong with IP printing or even Netbios over IP ;-) If you move to a Centralized Wireless Architecture, that Wired/Wireless separation gets exacerbated even more! (IP tunnels back to the controller!)
Philippe Hanset ---------------------------------- Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Information Technology Network Services 108 James D Hoskins Library 1400 Cumberland Ave Knoxville, TN 37996 ---------------------------------- On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Michael Dickson wrote: > 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/.
