That helps a lot thanks.

Nancy


On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Speight, Howard wrote:

> According to the docs in-band is required for Wireless? We have four  
> WiSM with about 600 AP's, CCA works fine but we have been having  
> intermittent traffic issues that appear to be related to the WiSM,  
> TAC case still open. Going along just fine then the traffic will  
> drop to zero. We are NOT using the CAS for the DHCP with wireless.  
> We have a CNR DHCP server inside the private VLAN with the AP's. The  
> clients and the CAS are on the public network...
>
> We are servicing around five thousand client machines in the  
> Residence Halls, wired, using the CAS as the DHCP server. The only  
> issue I see is functionality isn't as great as with the CNR DHCP  
> server. Can't work with individual leases, at least not from the CCA  
> GUI. An example would be a lease is given out without an expiration  
> date. The only thing I can do is block it until the client releases  
> it, then unblock it. CNR DHCP server can deactivate and force  
> available which causes the client to take some action to continue to  
> use the lease. Other than that CAS as DHCP server works quite well.
>
> Hope that helps...  :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[log in to unmask] 
> ] On Behalf Of Nancy Watson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 16:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Any issues using the CAS as the dhcp server
>
> We are deploying the Cisco NAC, inband, real-ip gateway to replace our
> Bluesocket solution for authentication.  The plan is to use the HA-CAS
> as the dhcp servers and configuring upwards in the 100's of vlans on  
> the
> box for our LWAPP access points.
>
> Does anyone know of any issues using the NAC servers as the dhcp  
> server
> versus an external dhcp server?  Is there issues with handling large
> numbers of vlans?
>
> We have  2 WiSM centrally located and will be moving to OOB and  
> posture
> assessment in the future.
>
> Thanks,
> Nancy
>
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