@SuperSumo wrote:
Many thanks in advance for your advice!
I am replacing a 7-year-old Ruckus Wireless system with an Aruba system at my small family-owned business and would like to separate tenant traffic from Employee traffic.
Plannig on using WPA-2 Personal authentication with 2 MAC whitelists (employee and tenant) I can use these lists to direct to vlans or set up 2 SSIDs to direct to different vlans.
I do not have any servers in my environment, any dhcp or firewall roles are filled by a sonicwall appliance.
1. Is the 7010 controller capable of serving as the DHCP server and firewall for the entire network? Should I remove the SonicWall
2. When setting up the vlans, the controller asks for the gateway, is this 192.168.149.1 for all vlans?
3. When setting up DHCP pools, the controller has a mandatory field for "hosts:", Is this just the number of client devices allowed?
4. I do not anticipate ever adding a 2nd controller. Should the configurations be made at the Master "Mobility Controller" level or the Aruba 7010 child device?
5. I can plug in the office computers and printer to the switch and assign the ports to the vlan100 if not on wi-fi, correct?
Again, thank you for your help!
Jeremy
1) The 7010 could replace your SonicWall. How many client devices do you expect to have at peak? The 7010 should be fine, with the two subnets you've listed.
2) The gateway should be configured for VLAN 149, as 192.168.149.1. Gateway entries should not be required for VLANs 100/200.
3) Yes
4) As a standalone controller, the root Mobility Controller is probably fine. If you were to add controllers later, you might want to consider adding a Mobility Master, in which case you'll migrate the configuration anyway.
5) Yes