Thanks Stan. That would most definitely fall under "somebody else has it, and it works better" bucket.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Brooks, Stan <[email protected]>wrote: > At Emory, we’ve been using VLAN pooling on our Aruba infrastructure for > at least 2 years (may be 3 – I forget because it works so well). > > Basically, you create a pool and put as many or as few VLANs you want in > that pool. You can even add VLANs as needed. The VLAN pool is tied to an > SSID for a group of APs and it acts just like a single VLAN for > configuration purposes. The controller load balances users across the VLANs > in the pool (by MAC address hash, I believe). This allows us to have may > subnets associated with an SSID and automagically spread users across those > nets. > > It works extremely well. I no longer worry about running out of wireless > client IP addresses. If the pools start showing higher usage, I just add > another VLAN to the pool. That way we keep our subnet sizes down (class > Cs), but can support thousands of users on wireless network without having > enormous broadcast domains. Aruba’s IP mobility takes care of clients > roaming between APs on different controllers. > > This feature is one of the best that Aruba has come out with. It makes > wireless network planning and scaling easy. If you need additional > information or help with configuring this, hit me off-list. > > >>-> Stan Brooks - CWNA/CWSP > Emory University > University Technology Services > 404.727.0226 > AIM/Y!/Twitter: WLANstan > MSN: [email protected] > GoogleTalk: [email protected] > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
