Cloudpath/Radius server with vlan pooling, can it be done?

[david_henderson]

We will be on-boarding staff, student and guest personal devices using Cloudpath. We currently have over 2,500 student personal devices and I would rather not place them all in a single vlan which would create a lot of broadcast traffic.

I want to create a vlan pool consisting of eight /23 vlans. A /23 vlan yields about 500 IP addresses with eight of them giving me 4,000 addresses I can hand out to student personal devices. A /23 is nice and small to cut down on broadcast traffic and keep performance optimal. I then want students to authenticate via Cloudpath and be placed in this vlan pool.

This can already be done with Aruba
http://goo.gl/PvX5OU

Can I do this with Cloudpath and Ruckus?

[abhi_maras]

VLAN Pool can be returned via a RADIUS VSA

[nathan_bailey_2]

Abhi,

Can you expand on your response please. What it the attribute used?

Thanks,

Nathan

[abhi_maras]

Hi Nathan,
I misspoke, while SZ does support the VLAN pool VSA 'Ruckus-Vlan-Pool' that is not yet added on Cloudpath. I will raise a request and get this added in the next release.

[nathan_bailey_2]

Ahbi,

From what version of SZ is this reported? I literally just had a TAC case requesting this information.  Thanks for the info, I'm excited to try this out.

Cheers!

[john_westlund]

I am doing this now with our SZ100 and hosted Cloudpath.  I have several user roles (StudentBYOD for example) on the SZ which assigns the VLAN Pool that I want.  In my Cloudpath workflow under Policy - Radius Attributes I specify that user role name in the Filter ID field.