The only traffic of this nature which we block at the edge is UPNP traffic,
outside of that large amounts of broadcast traffic from wireless users
historically has been a sign that the system was compromised.
~Patrick
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Marcelo,
You need to be careful blocking broadcasts, or you may need to statically set
ip addresses on all your clients. DHCP uses broadcast.
We are an Aruba shop. On our normal data SSIDs we set "Drop Broadcast and
Multicast" and "Convert Broadcast ARP requests to unicast" On our high speed
Hi Bruce, looks like we have a very similar setup.
I was thinking of doing what you described on the second paragraph of your
reply.
Marcelo Lew
Wireless Network Specialist
University Technology Services
University of Denver
Desk: (303) 871-6523
Cell: (303) 669-4217
Fax: (303) 871-5900
Email: m.
We found that IPv6 broadcast traffic contributed significantly to our wireless
broadcast traffic. Since we don't support IPv6 on the wireless network we
blocked the ethertype for IPv6 on our wireless controllers. Also, running vlan
pooling with /23's.
On a different topic related to bcast/mcas
, July 02, 2010 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: blocking broadcast/multicast?
Ryan,
You are correct that we are running M3's today. However, when we originally
used the filter it was with the Sup2 cards. We were getting unexplained CPU
spikes and we could not determine why. One of the recommendatio
: blocking broadcast/multicast?
Ryan,
You are correct that we are running M3's today. However, when we originally
used the filter it was with the Sup2 cards. We were getting unexplained CPU
spikes and we could not determine why. One of the recommendations by Aruba was
to create the following f
