Hey Matt,
I had one last question for you regarding your Meru one-subnet architecture. We point all of our clients to the Meru vlan ip address for their default gateway, so a clients gateway is whatever controller it is connected to per Meru recommendations . With the single subnet you use and multiple controllers where do you point the clients to for their gateway, one of the controllers or the next hop router? Thanks again! Scott Irey Network & Telecom Systems Engineer Oakland University Office: 248.370.2808 Mobile: 248.505.9827 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Barber, Matt *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:24 AM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression We are using MC5000 blades. All of our controllers are in the same subnet, so we didn’t need to implement an inter-controller roaming domain. We still defined the controller index on each one, as that is recommended in the documentation even if you don’t use the roaming feature. Take care, *Matt Barber* Network Analyst Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Scott Irey *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:12 AM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression Thanks again Matt! What controllers are you using? With the one vlan on all 5 controllers did you still need to implement an inter-controller roaming domain? Thanks again so much for your time! Scott Irey Network & Telecom Systems Engineer Oakland University Office: 248.370.2808 Mobile: 248.505.9827 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Barber, Matt *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:30 AM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression You are welcome! The highest simultaneous count I have seen is around 1600. We are typically somewhere between 1000 and 1500 (we have around 3,300 students), but that has been rising. We will probably hit well over 1700 in the fall semester. More and more students are coming in with iPod Touches and such in addition to having a laptop. *Matt Barber* Network Analyst Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Scott Irey *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:24 AM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression Thanks for all the help Matt! What would you say your average usage (clients connected) is at peak times? Scott Irey Network & Telecom Systems Engineer Oakland University Office: 248.370.2808 Mobile: 248.505.9827 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Barber, Matt *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:17 AM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression Yes, the /20 is spread across all 5 controllers handling our main campus. It is very nice to have the one subnet that covers everywhere. *Matt Barber* Network Analyst Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Scott Irey *Sent:* Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:13 PM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression Excellent that’s good to hear. We probably don’t need quite that big a space right now, probably a /22 at most. I am doing some capturing right on the controller as well and am seeing similar stuff. Only arp’s and some DHCP broadcasts. Are you spreading the /20 around to multiple controllers as well? We currently have 3 controllers and I am also considering inter-controller roaming, but if we do a /22 on all controllers I will get layer 3 mobility anyway. Scott Irey Network & Telecom Systems Engineer Oakland University Office: 248.370.2808 Mobile: 248.505.9827 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Barber, Matt *Sent:* Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:05 PM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression Hi Scott, I plugged a wired client into our wireless client VLAN and captured promiscuously. I only see ARP traffic for the router in that subnet and traffic coming straight to me. I don’t see any other broadcasts at all. I do packet captures fairly often and never see broadcasts that I shouldn’t. Our big student wireless subnet is currently a /20 and we have no issues with that. Take care, *Matt Barber* Network Analyst Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] *On Behalf Of *Scott Irey *Sent:* Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:50 PM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Meru and Broadcast Suppression Hello, Anyone that is using Meru know how well Meru does broadcast suppression to WLAN clients. Looking at some of my packet captures the broadcast traffic seems to be limited but I do see some broadcasted DHCP packets. I know they claim to do some suppression according to the config guide. It doesn’t seem as cut and dry though as compared to how Cisco’s WLC’s do it. We are looking to possibly expand the size of our subnets for wireless and this plays into that. What are some of the subnet sizes that some of you are using for WLAN? Thanks! 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