Reccomended switches for dynamic vlans

[Phil Mayers]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 12:32 +0800, Jacob Jarick wrote:
> Can any1 reccomend a brand / model of wireless switches that will
> support dynamic vlans.

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:

3Com 4400, 5500
Cisco 2960, 3560/3750, 4500, 6500
Extreme X250e/X450e/8800
HP Procurve (most of them)
Nortel (untested)
Alacatel (untested)
Foundry (untested)

...and a whole bunch more. It's a pretty common feature in any platform
from the last 18 months.

You really want to be looking for a few key differentiators such as:

 * can the device support 802.1x & mac-based fallback at the same time?
 * can the device authenticate >1 client on a port?
 * if so, can it support 802.1x for one and mac-based for another (think
IP phones)
 * 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)
 * can the device be told to let all macs in (again, wlan aps)
 * can the device support wake-on-lan on 802.1x unauthenticated ports?
 * does the device support an internal username db for fallback (think
ops staff laptops while the radius servers are down during an outage)

HTH