I've been reading over the VRD but just wanted to ask the community what they think -
Our building is really three buildings connected together into one big building. It's segmented into a vlan per building.
Admin Vlan
Elementary Vlan
Junior High Vlan
High School Vlan
Our current AP's ( apple airports ), are on the vlan for the part of the building they are in. With the apple airports, there are times when teachers sitting in their rooms might connect to three different vlans throughout the day. At each change, it takes their network down until it realizes whats going on and renews its IP.
We also run into issues where a user carries a laptop from one part of the building to another.
One of the big things i'm excited about for our move to Aruba is being able to forward that traffic across vlans.
While reading the VRD it sounds like layer 2 doesn't switch across vlans, is that correct? It sounded like layer 3 was the way to go, but the documentation all seems to reference going between controllers - not vlans on a single controller. We only have one controller.
Our controller will be connected directly to our MDF core switch, and each of the aruba AP's will be on the vlan for the part of the building they are in.
Anyone have any suggestions? Should I try layer 2 or go layer 3?
Our building is 99.9% mac, 0-4 year old macbooks.
Thanks!