Reccomended switches for dynamic vlans

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

Phil Mayers wrote:
>>> Nortel (untested)
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>> Are Notel still in buisiness ? I heard they invested heavily in mobile 
>> interweb and went bust.
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> No, they're still in business. The products we looked at recently are
> fairly new.
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Thats good to know, they used to be pretty big players in the UK.
I know there big UK research centre/hq near Harlow closed down a few 
years back. Quite sad really.
>>> You really want to be looking for a few key differentiators such as:
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>>>  * can the device support 802.1x & mac-based fallback at the same time?
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>> Yes !!!
>> The issue that I have with most of the current switches, is that they 
>> can't fallback to mac based auth...
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> Really? I didn't do the testing personally, but I'm fairly sure most of
> the ones we tested did support it.
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> Certainly 3Com, Cisco and Extreme do.
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Unfortunately we didn't really have a choice, as all the 300 odd 
deployed edge switches were HP, and there was no way we would get 
funding to replace them all.
Also previous experience with both 3Com and Cisco , saw them both 
removed permanently from our proffered suppliers list.

>>>  * if so, can it assign separate untagged vlans to each client?
>>>  * can the device assign IP ACLs from Radius replies?
>>>  * can the device assign 1 untagged and >1 tagged vlans (think wlan aps)
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>> I don't think many will allow you to assign multiple tagged VLANS, most 
>> centre around assigning one untagged VLAN... though that would be a very 
>> neat feature.
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> Extreme can.
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Well extreme looks like a good bet then.
Though it looks like all their wireless stuff is centrally managed, 
which is probably why we didn't investigate them.