Hi,
I will be the first to admit that I know very little about VLANs. I
understand the concept and even how to configure them (somewhat).
Currently our entire network is fully routed and switched without any
VLANs. However, we are starting to see a problem on larger tower
locations where we have 6-10 AP's all plugged into the same ethernet
switch, and then into a router before it gets to our backbone. I think
what we are seeing are ARP broadcast storms, etc. and it affects all the
AP's on that switch at the same time. Ping times to customers and the
AP's go up to 1500-2000ms, yet we never see the traffic on the router
itself.
My question is this: Could I enable VLANs on the switch, and put each AP
into it's own VLAN and then make the port the router is plugged into the
"trunk" port? Would this stop the broadcasts from affecting other AP's
on that switch?
Is there a better solution? What is everyone else doing?
Travis
Microserv
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