Re-opening the topic of using controllers to classify and control traffic- in particular P2P. I'm doing analysis of our 5508 WLCs' ability to perhaps replace a dedicated appliance solution.
I see that we're not exactly 1 for 1 on services recognized by WLC compared to the dedicated appliances, but I'm more concerned with what might happen to a busy WLC with 500 APs and thousands of clients if we ask it to start dropping a couple of dozen P2P protocols. For those already doing this sort of thing- did CPU climb appreciably when you turned the drop function? Any issues noted? Our controllers tend to coast for CPU and memory, but I gotta ask. Also, does anyone know if the 5760s can yet "control" or are they still limited to the AV in AVC? Any idea if 5760 protocol packs (or whatever the signatures are called on the 5760) are the same as that for the 5508 WLC? Thanks- Lee Lee Badman Wireless/Network Architect ITS, Syracuse University 315.443.3003 (Blog: http://wirednot.wordpress.com) ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
