Josh, Cisco has had this for awhile, it's called Hybrid REAP mode.
All, Thanks for the questions. I had a meeting with my account team and someone from the Business Unit. We spent a good deal of time talking about Roadmap items, which was all discussed under NDA. I will say this, Cisco has answers on VLAN Pooling, IPv6, and other things that didn't come up in this thread, but you'll have to talk to your account team for specifics on it. My comment as the end of the meeting that it was good to see Cisco innovating again. An example is the new 3500 AP, (good write up here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60795) Mike On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:21 PM, John Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > We've been using this (VLAN Pooling) at Brandeis for the same time period > and have been very happy with it. > > One new feature in Aruba OS 5.0 is the ability to have an SSID on any AP > (no special provisioning) act in a bridge mode while also maintaining the > 802.1x security and any firewall rules that tunneled VAPs have. They market > this for branch offices, so users can use the same SSID's and have the same > security while dropping them on a local net. > > We are using this to drop desktop clients on local VLAN segments so they > can act like regular desktops. We also have a static IP reservation system > for building subnets, so this help as well. > > John > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Mike King <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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/. >> >> > > > -- > John W. Turner > Director of Networks & Systems > Brandeis University > (781) 736-4569 office > (339) 225-0198 cell > ********** 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/.
