Howdy all,
My delima, I manage the network at a small business with many roaming users and devices. These users come and go into the network and most of them have no less than two devices some as many as 4 or 5. User bandwidth priority can vary depending on events and schedules. For the most part the office staff get's priority over the users who come and go. I began the task of identifying all of the devices then applying IP's via MAC bindings. The plan was to create ranges of IP's for these users so that I could manage traffic shaping on the fly so to speak. 64 bindings later and I discovered the ceiling and there goes my plan. Another component to this is WIFI access, passwords have been known to be given to people outside of the organization. And to stack things up even more new devices are added on a semi regular basis. Once I had devices applied and IP's set I would create a range where unknown devices would be filtered then directed to a message to contact the admin to add the device to the network. BTW, No Domain controller, welcome to my fun. The Wifi access point is an enGenius EAP1750H, its set to use the USG50 as the DHCP server. I can still set the Wifi to filter unknown MAC's but that doesn't help when it comes to traffic shaping at the gateway level. I would like to keep all devices in the same subdomain. I haven't even addressed the fact that some laptops will connect to the wired network which means another MAC.
My traffic shaping groups look like this
Group 1, mix of desktop, laptop and mobile devices
Group 2, desktop only
Group 3, Mix of desktop, laptop and mobile devices
Group 4, Mix of laptops and mobile devices.
Desktops can be locked to static IP's but every laptop and mobile device across all the groups cannot.
Do i create multiple wifi SSID's for each group? At the Wifi level I can limit bandwidth and block Devices.
Looking for direction on a plan hopefully being able to stick the gear they have now.
Thanks!
~PT
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