With our Cisco WiSM we run a 21 bit mask VLAN for students and a second 21 bit mask VLAN for faculty/staff using VLAN assignment. In our setup, multicast and broadcast packets are disabled on the wireless VLANS so the large size is not an issue.
This was actually a nice feature of the controller. Broadcast traffic that needs to work (ARP, etc) gets answered by the controller and everything else (windows file sharing, etc) gets dropped. We don't have any applications that we support on wireless that require broadcast or multicast so this was an easy choice. Walt -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Glassford Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Question on layer 3 size Greetings, Cisco 4402 and 4404 Wireless Lan Controllers with a mixer of Cisco light weight access points. Currently running a 22 bit mask for the 1022 hosts on one SSID/VLAN. Would welcome any real world experience about increasing to a 21 bit mask for the 2046 hosts or larger on one SSID/VLAN with Cisco WLCs and lwaps. Thanks! jim ********** 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/.
