It is interesting to see all these numbers. I've gone back to previous
semesters and calculated our growth and we have seen an average of 15% growth
from semester to semester. This semester we are also having to deal with DHCP
pools (we use /22s) that are nearly exhausted. Cacti does a great
Hector,
How are you doing alerting with Cacti? I use it, but don't think I've ever
explored alerting before.
On another note, I think we saw some growth over black friday, but not really
over Christmas. We used to average 1650 simultaneous wireless devices during
peak times, now it's more
Look under Management--Thresholds and there you can set your parameters as
well as the email addresses that you want to send emails to.
-H
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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan
We rate shape the guest network to a very low total bandwidth and block all
applications except email, web traffic and software/os update facilities.
-Brian
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I've seen this come up a couple of times. So I hope you don't mind me asking,
what would be the advantage of providing very low total bandwidth for your
guests?
Pete M.
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The thold (Threshold) is a plugin for cacti:
http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:thold
it's not in the default install or wasn't last i looked...
Nicola
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On Fri Jan 27 2012 09:54:40 Central Time, Peter P Morrissey wrote:
I've seen this come up a couple of times. So I hope you don't mind me asking,
what would be the advantage of providing very low total bandwidth for your
guests?
One line of
No password means no encryption. A one word reason why you should not
have an open network: FIRESHEEP
Hidden SSIDs are also a security concern: read this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28653/debunking-myths-is-hiding-your-wireles
s-ssid-really-more-secure/
If you¹re not using encryption, or
At Westmont we've seen a significant increase, but not as large as reported
by others on this list. I'm eyeballing this off a rough graph, but the
median number of devices on a given week per month is as follows.
Oct 2011: 2000
Nov 2011: 2000
Dec 2011: 2200
Jan 2012: 2500
Looks like a 10% Black
