That should, now in order to do that you will need to have a separate
subnet for each AP and the customers off of it (I believe). Have you
done any packet sniffing to see if there is a lot of ARP requests?
How many hosts do you have off of that tower?
Ryan
On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Travis Johnson wrote:
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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