This depends on your implementation. If you don't do Auth vlans, and just do straight vlan switching (like the article I linked) you can be placed on a VLAN based on many things. We use Group membership here.
No DHCP delay in that configuration. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jason Appah <[email protected]> wrote: > The only thing about that is training your users to accept the limited or > no connectivity state when connecting to the assigned vlan… > > > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike King > *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2009 12:04 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users > > > > You don't mention if your using 802.1x, but if you are, you can utilize > "Vlan Override". > > > > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080665ceb.shtml > > > > which allows you to throw users int specific VLAN's based on RADIUS return > attributes. All off the same SSID. > > > > Mike > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jason Appah <[email protected]> wrote: > > You could still get away with that with FAT AP's > > That is since they are autonomous, you could assign different vlans and > in turn different ip scopes to the same ssid as they are all unawares of > each other. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Irey > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:27 AM > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users > > Not sure if Cisco has anything like this but Aruba has vlan pooling > which > allows multiple vlans to be assigned to the same SSID and the algorithm > will > assign clients to each vlan based on that. That works well if you want > to > continue to broadcast the same ssid over all of campus. Not sure if > Cisco > does anything similar. > > We have multiple profiles here (per building) all using the same ssid > but > depending on what AP you associate to you will get assigned that profile > which has the vlan assignment. > > Scott Irey > Network & Telecom Systems Engineer > Oakland University > Office: 248.370.2808 > Mobile: 248.505.9827 > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of reflect ocean > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users > > Hi I run a medium-sized wifi network.We are cisco shop > (autonommous access points).Recently wifi users number have reached > limits we didn't expect.Because of that,we had to adjust our subnet > network in order to support more users associated to the only SSID our > wireless network use. > > I've been looking for alternative to create another ssid and associate > it to another different subnet but I can't find any related to. > > Our wireless lan is currently reaching 1000 users or so.I'm not very > confortable with the idea of having such number of users in wireless > subnet. > We have deployed around 60 cisco autonomous acess points throughout > the campus and this subnet is firewalled and routed in our core switch > which is a hope away to accessing Internet.It's very simple design. > What would be a recommended deployment in this case with a growing > number of users? > Would deploying lwap bring any advantage to this design? We want to > keep a single ssid and mobility for wireless users. > Would mesh network bring any benefit? > > Thank you > > ********** > 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/. > > ********** > 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/. > ********** 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/.
