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> From: Wireless Issues in the JANET community [mailto:WIRELESS-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Heaton
> Sent: 18 July 2012 11:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Cisco AP management vlan size
>
> Hi,
>
> We’ve recently migrated 300+ autonomous access points to
> lightweight on 5008 controllers (7.0.230.0). For historical
> reasons (WDS …) the management networks for the APs were kept
> small – less than 32 units per vlan. We’re looking to consolidate
> but other than a rather old Best Practice guide (ID 82463) which
> suggests a limit of 60 to 100 per vlan, can find no other
> recommendation. We’re starting to deploy a further 1000+ units, so
> any advice would be appreciated before we commit. We’ll be using
> private IPs so no restrictions there.
Hi Brian,
We typically have one "ap admin" vlan per distribution router, each with a
RFC1918 /24 subnet. In places where we have more than ~200 APs we add
another vlan+/24 to that router.
Kind regards,
James
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James J J Hooper
Senior Network Specialist, University of Bristol
http://wireless.bristol.ac.uk
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