Bruce, Could you contact me off-list to discuss your reasoning for moving to Aruba and not "upgrading" to Cisco's N class access points?
Thank you. __________________ Josh Baity Network Analyst Black Hills State University From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: dhcp not making it through the inline cas for roaming Apple OS X clients Ben, I assume that means you are using Aruba ECS, which is based on Bradford Campus Manager. We have been evaluating ECS in a test environment and we are getting ready to replace our Clean Access system with Aruba ECS. We are also moving from the Cisco Aironet b/g wireless to Aruba's 802.11n offering. We have found Aruba & Bradford support for this product to be superb. Bruce Osborne Liberty University From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Price Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CLEANACCESS] dhcp not making it through the inline cas for roaming Apple OS X clients We've been having fun with an issue (TAC case SR 609658193) we discovered this year that others might find interesting. There's not much feedback from Cisco on this one at this point. Our setup is with ~600 Aruba APs, cisco 3560 PoE access, 3750 & 6506 cores, 4 CAS (3 inline for wireless, 1 oob for wired) still running 4.1.2.1 (we stalled at this rev.) and BIND 9 for DHCP. We've discovered that any Apple OS X client (10.4, 10.5, iphones, etc.) that roams to a new address space (we allocate a /23 for most of our buildings) and requests a new address will not get the new DHCP ACK and fails to pass through the inline CAS. We have found a workaround that works most of the time, which is to have the resident insert a unique value (their student ID number) in the DHCP Client ID field. The DHCP discover is received properly from the client, DHCP offer is made from the server (with new address from proper pool), the DCHP request is passed back from the client, but the DHCP ACK appears to be dropped by the CAS. I'm curious if others have the same setup as ours and might be seeing similar behavior. We've pretty much resolved to take our wireless traffic off of the CCA product (4.5 requires Cisco wireless controller to do out of band) and have put a new Aruba solution in place. Ben Price Manager, Residential Network Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (805) 893-4747
