[c-nsp] VMPS

[Peter Hicks]

Hello (again!)

At one of our sites with around 500 users, we have a multi-VLAN environment. 
Two 6506s (as per previous email) in the core, two 3550-24s running EMI and
L3, and 25+ 3548XLs on the floors.

At the moment, there's nothing to stop users plugging non-company machines
in to the network and running riot.  I've looked at VMPS as a method of
dynamically allocating users to ports - and another team's providing the
front-end.

On an infrastructure level, is VMPS the 'right thing' to implement to
prevent unauthorized machines on our network?  Or would upgrading the 3500s
to 3550s and running 802.1x be an option?

Running a VMPS server daemon on UNIX boxes isn't a possibility here for
support reasons (i.e. we're not using UNIX systems for user-facing
services).  Has anyone here had experience running a VMPS server on Cisco
switches?

Best wishes,


Peter.