WLC 5508 Interface addressing - limitations?

[rogerpetersson]

Is there any limitations of network size for an interface in a WLC 5508?

Any recomendations of netmask size? Maximum /24, maximun /21?

Pros/Cons?

[Saravanan Lakshmanan]

Netmask doesn't matter, For each WLC platform, only its supported wireless client and AP matters. WLC doesn't allow more than its hard coded client limit. 5508 supports 7000 wireless clients.

[rogerpetersson]

Ok, so i would be safe to do this, for example:

- Create an WLAN named "all_users"

- Connect this WLAN (via AP group) to an interface called "the_interface"

- Configure "the_interface" with 10.1.1.2 255.255.240.

That would actually mean that 4000+ clients could connect to a single interface. But it shouldn't be a problem with such an amount of clients?

[Stephen Rodriguez]

Yes, that would work.  The limitation there would be to the number of clients the WLC can handle, IIRC it's 5000 users

HTH,
Steve

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[rogerpetersson]

Ok, thank you for your answers.

I was wondering if i could expect any problems with high amounts of broadcast trafiic with such large client networks?

[Scott Fella]

Broadcast is blocked at the controller unless you allow broadcast forwarding.  So you are fine:)