There is, of course, the crucial difference that DNS is trivially routable and DHCP is rather another matter. If they're not succeeding or failing in the same ways, that could point towards an understanding of why not....
David Gillett CCNP CISSP -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bohrer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 15:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba and Windows 2003 DHCP issue. Oops. On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Steve Bohrer wrote: > With our wireless setup, our APs are on a VLAN which lets them connect > to the their controllers, but not to much else. In particular, they > can't reach our DNS server nor any other "regular user" services. All > the wifi user VLANs are tunneled from the APs back to the controllers, > and these VLANs let the users hit our central DNS, with the users in a > separate address space than the APs. Since the APs and users are kept > separate anyhow, it does not seem odd to have them use different DNS > servers. Please substitute "DHCP" for "DNS" above, just like the original poster was talking about. (All those pesky letters. I can't even begin to properly say SNMP vs SMTP, even when it is quite obvious from context...) Steve Bohrer Network Admin Bard College at Simon's Rock 413-528-7645 ********** 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/.
