For you Cisco wireless folks out there, I'm curious if you have any
thoughts/recommendations on "Client Load Balancing" in your
Dorms/Residence Halls. I'm chasing a bunch of reports of wireless users
being kicked off the network for no apparent reason. They are able to
rejoin right away, but it's happening enough times that they've given up
Skyping or other streaming Internet-based applications. The interesting
thing is that we are not getting reports of this out in the Academic
buildings but it occurred to me that our design is such that those APs
join to a pair of WiSM2s while our Residence Hall APs join to a pair of
5508s. On the WiSM2s we have NOT enabled Client Load Balancing, but we
did on the 5508s. The rationale we used was that if a wireless client
had 2 APs within decent range, Client Load Balancing would help to keep
the clients from all associating to one of the two APs. Now I'm
wondering if something isn't working quite right and the result is users
getting bounced.
I have a TAC case open and so far the engineer has come back with upping
the "Client user idle timeout" from 5 minutes to 1 hr. I'm not
convinced that will help, but also curious if folks have thoughts on
that recommendation.
Thanks,
-dan
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Dan Brisson
Network Engineer
University of Vermont
(Ph) 802.656.8111
[email protected]
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