Robin Breathe wrote:
> On 22 April 2010 09:16, Jeff Fern <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Sorry, I was referring to having to configure the VLANs on our switches
>> for each AP rather than having the VLANs configured within the wireless
>> system.
>
> We're also planning a wireless upgrade (from autonomous Cisco APs),
> and I happen to have had a conference call with senior Aerohive
> techies just yesterday.
> This – the ability to tunnel clients to non-local VLANs – was one of
> my queries. I'm after the ability to selectively bridge clients off
> onto local VLANs (e.g. admin staff) whilst tunnelling others (on the
> same SSID, e.g. eduroam visitors) back to a central DMZ. Aerohive
> purport to support exactly this. The tunnelling is currently inter-AP
> only, but my understanding is that if there is at least one AP in the
> hive (more for resilience) on the VLAN you wish to assign to a user,
> you can do so no matter which AP the user associates to, and all their
> traffic will be dynamically tunnelled and bridged appropriately.
That does make it more interesting (I still prefer the idea of a
centralised controller), although a little too late for us to consider
given how far we are through our trial. When we told Airohive why we
weren't interested in considering them they seemed 'happy' with our
reason instead of providing this information.
> I was sufficiently impressed by this and their answers to my other
> questions that I plan to go ahead with a trial.
I would be interested in hearing how you get on with it once you've had
time to evaluate their system.
Cheers,
-Jeff
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