RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPads, Labs/classroom use, 802.1x - Take Two

2012-10-02 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
I do not know how difficult it is to manage the users, teaching them to navigate the iOS settings to delete the 802.1x profile as they return the iPad... but on the loaning side, autoconfig, cloudpath or even a mobileconfig profile should get users onboard quickly. I can tell you that in cisco

RE: Aruba DHCP fingerprinting

2012-08-31 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
] Aruba DHCP fingerprinting Anyone find a unique fingerprint for AppleTV’s? I did a capture with our test ATV and option 55 was the same as iOS. Thanks From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Randall C Grimshaw Sent

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Supression

2012-08-27 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We experienced this last year also on macs. We use XpressConnect which has the ability to remove the profiles for the open networks. If you are an Xpressconnect user, there is a setting for the latest build which activates this solution even in the absence of Java. We just completed our opening

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Supression

2012-08-27 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Supression

2012-08-27 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Supression

2012-08-27 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Randall C Grimshaw Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:42 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@listserv.educause.edu Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID Supression In the Define Networks console, Select your Server. Right there in the intial page is the Visual Setting section, Edit

RE: Aruba DHCP fingerprinting

2012-08-24 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
VendClassId: PS Vita Fingerprint: 1-3-15-6 I do not know how to translate that into the Aruba encryption. Randall Grimshaw rgrim...@syr.edumailto:rgrim...@syr.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU]

RE: Domain Logon Over Wireless

2012-07-30 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
It is possible (we do it) We elected to do it with a dedicated SSID to simplify administration and enhance security. The trick is to enable machine authentication on your radius server (and send machine auth from the clients - a default we typically turned off). Machine auth only succeeds for

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] School blocks Wi-Fi access to smartphones to address IP usage issues

2012-03-07 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
It is possible to use dhcp fingerprints to provide device category specific settings including lease times. This is not vendor specific, but a dhcp configuration. Our observation is that many many many of our wireless devices are 'mobile appliances'. Mostly Apple today with android numbers

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] [Spam:6.1 SpamScore] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Very high number of wireless devices returning from break

2012-01-26 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
For us, the swell in mobile devices started after Black Friday this season. I have tracking that covers four years. There was a slight adoption of mobile devices following Christmas 2 years ago, last years significant growth began just before the holiday but peaked afterward. Mobile has roughly

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Very high number of wireless devices returning from break

2012-01-26 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
a.) our peak is in the late lunch until dinner b.) a trick that I use to measure pool utilization is to watch the 'lts' numbers in local3.log as my peered DHCP servers balance the pools. (I also monitor leases and calculate pool fluxuations - but that takes longer to explain). Randall Grimshaw

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Very high number of wireless devices returning from break

2012-01-26 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
[WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Randall C Grimshaw [rgrim...@syr.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:45 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Very high number of wireless devices returning from break a.) our peak is in the late lunch until dinner b

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] valid 3rd party certificates?

2011-07-22 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
I wanted to fork the second part of this thread. We are just preparing to use updated ssl certs using godaddy. There are three chained certs that must be present on the device at the time of connection if you want to do any radius server verification. To manage the configuration and deliver the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Active Directory authentication for loaned out laptops over wireless

2011-07-21 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We were able to get AD machine to authenticate to our wireless network using settings as you describe, but this was too late in the process for AD management and policy group maintenance. We have created a separate secured SSID for AD machines that uses AD machine authentication. We went a

Self Signed Certs for Radius Authentication Servers

2011-07-12 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
Greetings all: I would like to request some feedback please on the topic of using self signed certs for radius authentication servers. The complexity of Root and Intermediate certificate chains of trust when the computer does not yet have network access seems to be a configuration burden,

changing of the guards

2011-05-26 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We are preparing to change the authentication server certificates on our 802.1x network. Can anyone please share their experience? Corner cases, OS mis-behavior, Client experience any other helpful tips. Thank you in advance. Randall Grimshaw rgrim...@syr.edu ** Participation and

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] GPO Software Deployment 802.1x

2011-04-06 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Randall C Grimshaw Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:11 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] GPO Software Deployment 802.1x In order to get AD GPO deployment

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] GPO Software Deployment 802.1x

2011-04-06 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
...@fsu.edumailto:sd...@fsu.edu Network Specialist Information Technology Services Florida State University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Randall C Grimshaw Sent

RE: 802.1x and password change policy...

2011-02-14 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
It is true that there is no permanent agent, but users are pretty much trained to go to an open SSID called '--Help' to configure the supplicant when there is a problem like this. That is where we host ExpressConnect and other documentation. Randy -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE

RE: Android OS 2.2

2010-10-23 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
I am thinking that I missed something. Android 2.1 didn't have this behavior ( as far as I know it worked OK). So why are we all jumping to fix something we didn't break. Do we all really want to drop our layer two defenses to literally enable the misbehavior of these devices? Randall Grimshaw

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Princeton determines cause of an iPad problem

2010-04-19 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
Even with multiple smaller subnets, you can prevent IP address hogging as long as the DHCP server provides a mechanism to remove client leases from the other pool at the point it hands out a lease to the same device in the new one. These two options are available in the ISC dhcp servers. I

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Hacking Cisco WLC - macfilters

2010-04-16 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
I would be interested in the code from a curiosity perspective, but I also wanted to ask how this is received from a user perspective. Is this a feature that you use as a last resort? We have always bent over backwards to attempt (as much as practical) to steer the user into a web page that

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAC -Posture Assessment

2010-04-09 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
Reponse inline, would you please share the results of this survey. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Manoj Abeysekera Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:35 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject:

RE: Instructions

2009-11-04 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We use a HELP style SSID with a configuration utility and other documentation like you have created on it. The utility is available from Cloudpath.net Randy From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Bennett

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Wireless Access

2009-07-17 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
] On Behalf Of Randall C Grimshaw Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:13 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Wireless Access In addition to our 802.1x network, we provide an open network SSID guarded by a captive portal gateway. Any member of the campus community

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Wireless Access

2009-07-16 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
In addition to our 802.1x network, we provide an open network SSID guarded by a captive portal gateway. Any member of the campus community can sponsor a guest account on the captive portal. This resource has limited ports and bandwidth. Randy From: The

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless network names

2009-03-31 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
One compelling reason for choosing a SSID name is Trademark. There are some who say (this is unproven to the best of my knowledge) that f you register your name as a trademark you have a better chance of legally defending your right not to have others broadcast it - nefarious or otherwise. It

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] IDEngines and Autoconnect

2009-03-11 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
The IdEngines company closed and was in part acquired by ... but the Autoconnect product is also marketed as Cloudpath.net XPressConnect And yes, we are also a satisfied customer. Randy -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco lightweight APs and non-IOS DHCP for controller discovery

2008-10-31 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
This is the ISC DHCP configuration that we use to supply Cisco LWAPP AP's with their controller address. option space LWAPP; option LWAPP.controller code 241 = ip-address; class LWAPP { match option vendor-class-identifier; } subclass LWAPP Cisco AP c1130 { vendor-option-space LWAPP; option

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Network Access Control

2008-09-11 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
Who is using NAC (Network Access Control) for wireless client authentication and posturing? 1) What solution did you select? Impulse SafeConnect 2) How easily did it integrate with you existing infrastructure? We were the pilot for some advanced 802.1x functionality, but it

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using MAC Authentication

2008-07-01 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
I will offer the caution that in a captive portal, in regard to accountability, MAC harvesting is an all or nothing proposition. You will be surprised how often computers are loaned and authenticated using different accounts. If you harvest for one population, that population will eventually

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using Private IP addresses for wireless users.

2008-05-29 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We also have moved all backbone interconnects and other small networks to vlsm. The tighter space became, the more creative we became. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, May

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using Private IP addresses for wireless users.

2008-05-29 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
space. However I haven't moved backbone interconnects, as that would break traceroute from off campus. On Thu, 29 May 2008, Randall C Grimshaw wrote: We also have moved all backbone interconnects and other small networks to vlsm. The tighter space became, the more creative we became

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] residence all security

2008-05-21 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We use WPA PEAP 802.1x with AD (MSCHAPv2) with Vista nicely (even WPA2 on some networks) so I am a bit confused by your statements. Our DHCP based NAC worked pretty well on 802.1x but we are implementing Impulse for the fall for additional functionality. Randy Grimshaw, Syracuse University

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless 802.1x working well- now add NAC?

2008-02-07 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
Not even the iPhone works well with 802.1x at this time. So the answer is that you still need to provide a more open SSID for these devices and for casual guests. We host a third SSID for the purpose of configuring clients to use the 802.1x SSID, and still others for special purposes around

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] NEWS item: A Wi-Fi Virus Outbreak? It's Possible

2008-01-10 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We can scoff at the problems with the distribution model proposed in this scenario. But if it draws attention to a commonly overlooked source of risk in a targeted incident... it may be a good thing. . -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating wireless configuration on clients

2007-11-02 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
We took a crack at this. What we found was that it is quite easy to do with Vista, but the variety of Vendor OEM wireless managers in use for XP and some nasty XP spyware frequently interfered with the tool. We are under the recent impression that the iD-Engines product has had a better success

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Machine Authentication in Vista

2007-08-31 Thread Randall C Grimshaw
Once you get a configuration that works, use netsh to distribute the configuration. Our install wrapper essentially does this: netsh.exe wlan disconnect interface=Wireless Network Connection netsh.exe wlan delete profile YourOldNetworkName netsh.exe wlan delete profile YourNetworkName netsh.exe