hello guys, I take multiple vlans with multiple DHCP Server, and Cisco Switch gets 802.1Q trunk with my ros,
now I wanna to creat hotspot server, my question is :
can I use one hotspot server for all clients in each vlan ?
I have the same situation here in Brasil, in a company that I work. I would like to segregate my network in vlans using one unique hotspot server too.
Do you did this setup?
cadamuroa .. actually i was searching the whole day for such configuration and i came to the same point which is how to share the hotspot page across all the vlan subnets..
Short answer: you can’t AFAIK. hotspot/DHCP operate on a given broadcast domain, cannot see how to make a single DHCP server to give out ips from different subnets based on interface.
I could be possible if you knew MACs in advance, to make them static, something which is not going to happen on a hotspot.
Very curious on cadamuroa solution.
Long answer:
If you want a single hotspot server you’d need to bridge all the vlans and run the hotspot over it.
As you won’t want to allow traffic across vlans, you’ll need to set up all vlan ports in the bridge with same horizon value.
You’ll need to disable all the vlan DHCP servers and set up a single DHCP server over that bridge, or just follow hotspot wizard and select that interface.
I can’t see the point of doing that however (I’d rather prefer to have each vlan under its own hotspot, better for management).
If what you want is having the same captive portal pages, you can accomplish by setting the same HTML Directory in each hotspot profile while having several hotspot servers.