[EXT] Re: dhcp-users Digest, Vol 133, Issue 6

Anderson, Charles R cra at wpi.edu
Mon Nov 11 20:26:47 UTC 2019


> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:23 AM Cayab, Jefrey E. <jcayab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for the suggestion which I did and the warning messages went
> > away.
> > Unfortunately, this server serves large events wherein wifi users could
> > get up to 60,000

My calculation was off by an order of magnitude.  As Simon said, you have 6 MILLION addresses in all the pools/ranges added up.  That will take a long time to load the config.

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:29:47AM -0500, Andrew Bell wrote:
> What kind of wifi controller are you using that can handle 65000+ users on
> a single subnet?!

Many kinds.  Wi-Fi is generally handled as one flat subnet on an entire campus/site with broadcast/multicast suppression so that you don't have roaming problems which would happen if you need to roam to a new subnet.


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