@istong wrote:
If the AP's are at the same site as the controller that is a different design then if the AP's are at a remote site to the controller. In the case where the AP's and the controller are at the same site, I would recommend the following:
1) connect the AP's to switches and vlans the same as wired workstations.
2) connect the controller to your network and either use an existing subnet or create a new one for the controller (depends on if you have a firewall you route through, I prefer a separate vlan between the controller and the firewall as the firewall is my default gateway).
3) define new subnets on the controller for the wireless clients. The AP's will get an IP out of the user vlans and communicate back to the controller. The wifi client traffic tunnels back to the controller and then obtains an IP out of the wireless vlans you created. You can assign client vlans using dhcp on the controller or better yet from a corporate dhcp server.
Hope that helps,
Ian
Hi Ian,
We are gointg to use corporate DHCP server since we are likely to have 100 Ap´s and no less than 2000 devices..
Correct me if this is not the best way :
1. Vlan 37 already exists for management and we want to add all AP´s and Controller to that Vlan.
For that we are going to add all AP´s MAC´s to Subnet in DHCP for 10.200.1.xx
2. Wired users are today in a network 55.0.0.xx based, where there are several vlan´s and where are located also Active directory and all its services ( DHCP, DNS ).
3 . Since we are expecting a huge ammount of devices in the final i assume i need to create several Vlan´s for Wireless users and also a scope in DHCP. A user when connecting to Wlan will get a dhcp address in a subnet on 55.0.0.xx
4. Assuming all this I will need to create a Trunk between the Aruba and the Core 6500 Cisco. That trunk will have vlan allowed for MGMT and all the others?
5. LAst point: on dhcp we will create a scope for users in 55 network... I also think its better to create serveral Vlans for users on WLAN.
For this my doubt is create them on aruba or in client side ?
Sorry to be so extensive but this is a big project and my knowledge for Aruba is not that big..
Thanks so much
Regards
BRuno