All,

 

I wanted to poll the group and see what strategies you are using at your
Universities for client addressing on large wireless networks. We are
revisiting how we address and segment our wireless LAN largely due to the
need to accommodate large events and sports arenas. We have operated with
buildings in various wireless "zones" with a VLAN/subnet per zone. Going
forward some of our larger event spaces will need to support 3000+ clients
in the same building.

 

What has the approach been for handling address allocations at your
institutions? Most research I've found suggests either using VLAN pooling or
very large subnets with client isolation. These won't easily work for us, at
least in academic areas, as we have many faculty using airplay, doceri, and
other client to client applications. Going with large subnets per building
may cause a lot of broadcast traffic volume issues and potential roaming
issues between buildings (sticky clients?).

 

If it helps, we are an Aerohive shop and using Windows Server 2012 DHCP in
HA configuration.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris Adams, CISSP

 

Director, Network & Telecom Services

Division of Information Technology

University of North Georgia

E-Mail:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] | Office: (706)
867-2891

 


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