While giving each AP it's own subnet and doing a "router-on-a-stick" scenario is preferred, it might be a pain to re-number that much infrastructure.
A temporary, or transitional step would be to replace the switch with a Mikrotik, connecting each AP's ethernet into it. And implement port filters to prevent ARP between ports. Thanks, -Russ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Langseth Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:47 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] vlans That should, now in order to do that you will need to have a separate subnet for each AP and the customers off of it (I believe). Have you done any packet sniffing to see if there is a lot of ARP requests? How many hosts do you have off of that tower? Ryan On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I will be the first to admit that I know very little about VLANs. I > understand the concept and even how to configure them (somewhat). > Currently our entire network is fully routed and switched without any > VLANs. However, we are starting to see a problem on larger tower > locations where we have 6-10 AP's all plugged into the same ethernet > switch, and then into a router before it gets to our backbone. I think > what we are seeing are ARP broadcast storms, etc. and it affects all > the AP's on that switch at the same time. Ping times to customers and > the AP's go up to 1500-2000ms, yet we never see the traffic on the > router itself. > > My question is this: Could I enable VLANs on the switch, and put each > AP into it's own VLAN and then make the port the router is plugged > into the "trunk" port? Would this stop the broadcasts from affecting > other AP's on that switch? > > Is there a better solution? What is everyone else doing? > > Travis > Microserv > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
