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wireless design guide/help

mr_fc
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Hi guys........just have  few qestions about designing WLC 5508

The  scenario is  that currently one of the client has a firewall Tiering T1 internet facing and T2 internal whioch has multiple DMZ connected.

T2 firewall has a DMZ switch connected which has a router which connects to MPLS cloud to different site across the country. (around 10 sites) all static routing.

Now the client is thinking to deploy wireless at all 10 sites using H-REAP. The issue is that client has only one WLC and they are not willing to buy other as i was thinking to deploy two WLC one for corporate and one for guest users. (one in internal network and on in DMZ)

Now my question is as follwow.

1- Keeping in mind that there is only one WLC where should i physically put it?

2- How guest users will work ? How the authentication will be done?

3-There are 8 SFP ports in WLC how physical topology will look like?

4-How many Vlans i have to make for wirless users  will that be 10? (1 at each site) ?

my last question is that how these ports work on WLC are they just like swicth e.g  one port can be assigned to different vlan....just confuse about interfaces and vlans on WLC (interfces concept)

Thanks guy and hope to get a response ASAP.

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Scott Fella
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1- Keeping in mind that there is only one WLC where should i physically put it?

Well since you will also be supporting Corporate and I'm guessing that is where the WLC sites, it should be in the inside network.  You would just need to allow udp 5246 & 5247

2- How guest users will work ? How the authentication will be done?

Guest users can use webauth in which the credentials will be stored on the WLC.

3-There are 8 SFP ports in WLC how physical topology will look like?

This is the tricky part.  You can either lag or not lag.  You can't split up the lag (etherchannel).  So you can either use all 8 if you with and create an etherchannel and then acl the guest traffic out the internet or you can put the guest on a layer 2 vlan in which you would connect that out to the dmz.  Or you can use one port for the management and also have a backup port, one for your internal wireless and also have a backup port and the same for guest.  SO it would look like this:

Management primary port 1 backup port 2

SSID primary port 3 backup port 4

Guest primary port 5 guest port 6

OR

Management & SSID's primary port 1 backup port 2

Guest primary port 3 guest port 4

4-How many Vlans i have to make for wireless users will that be 10? (1 at each site) ?

If you use local switching which I would think you would, the vlans for the SSID at the remote site will be created locally at each remote site.  If you want to centrally switch, means all traffic will come back to the WLC, then you will need at least one.  Now you can use a large subnet or have a subnet for each site, its up to you.  You would use AP Groups for that.

my last question is that how these ports work on WLC are they just like switch e.g one port can be assigned to different vlan....just confuse about interfaces and vlans on WLC (interface concept)

Thanks,

Scott

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Didn't see this was a duplicate post.  No need to post to multiple forums since many of us look at all the mobility forums.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2175706?tstart=0

Thanks,

Scott

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