Microsoft Surface WiFi issue - resolved

2013-04-30 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Rolling back the driver one version fixed it. I believe Surface Pro has a Marvel chip. Tom Zeller Senior Technology Analyst Indiana University zel...@indiana.edu (812) 855-6214 On 4/24/13 5:23 PM, Zeller, Tom S zel...@indiana.edu wrote: I'm no longer directly involved in the WiFi here

Microsoft Surface WiFi issue

2013-04-24 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I'm no longer directly involved in the WiFi here, but I was helping someone with a Microsoft Surface (Intel version) that is perfectly up-to-date. My Mac Air WiFi worked perfectly with our Aruba AP throughout the exercise. His would connect, get DHCP, get a lease renewal in five min (ten min

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WPA2-Enterprise - account lockouts and password changes

2011-12-09 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I saw this on this list the day after my account had been locked, as always happens upon a pw change (g). (Thanks to however posted it). I suggested we turn this bit on at Indiana. The ADS people have tested it for a month and are happy with it. Security OK'd it today. The identity

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ATT WiFi

2011-07-21 Thread Zeller, Tom S
At Indiana we have had long had separate guest SSID via a generated account (by any faculty or staff, in bulk by convention center types). This sorta worked but most people didn't know how to create the accounts (or that they could) and there are plenty of visitors for whom no one would generate

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] off-topic: does anyone do voip ?

2011-04-06 Thread Zeller, Tom S
1. Here is an Educause forum for discussion of such issues. It has reorganized the old net@edu working groups under the umbrella of Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI: http://www.educause.edu/acti) and one of the working groups is the Communication, Collaboration, and Mobility

Princeton determines cause of an iPad problem

2010-04-18 Thread Zeller, Tom S
http://www.net.princeton.edu/announcements/ipad-iphoneos32-stops-renewing-le ase-keeps-using-IP-address.html iPad gets DHCP lease. If iPad happens to be sleeping during the renewal time it awakens and uses the IP number forever (until shut down of unit or WiFi or going out of range) Tom Zeller

Meraki survey of campus wireless devices

2009-11-10 Thread Zeller, Tom S
24 institutions, 10,000 devices: http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/11/10/student-use-of-80211n-twice-general-p opulation/ Or http://tinyurl.com/yzt87h4 Tom Zeller Indiana University ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Enforcing and Ensuring Machine Auth 802.1x

2009-05-18 Thread Zeller, Tom S
On 5/16/09 6:29 PM, Brooks, Stan stan.bro...@emory.edu wrote: If the computer loses its security association with the AD domain, authentication will fail. Once you lose the security association, I believe you need to rebuild it by connecting through a wired network. = = = = I would have

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aerohive 340AP

2009-03-06 Thread Zeller, Tom S
In a recent discussion here we produced at least two issues with decentralized architecture. #1. Mobility. One of the main attractions of the controller-based architecture (CBA) in the first place was to improve the experience for hand-held devices which don't hibernate between locations.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Upgrade Approach (phased vs. overhaul)

2008-11-20 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Indiana moved from 1500 fat AP's to 3000 controller-based AP's over this past summer. Overall, the conversion went very smoothly for the users, if a bit of a strain on the engineering staff. In the process we added a new SSID with 802.1x and another for guests. We left the legacy

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ticketmaster, wireless in stadiums - Correction

2008-08-12 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I'm told that TicketMaster has their own wireless APs on campus, not under our management. Now that it has been brought to my attention I do recall a discussion that the locations for TicketMaster were not physically near our own APs and aren't likely to cause interference in a meaningful way.

From Windows Event log to Syslog

2008-07-04 Thread Zeller, Tom S
There was a question about this recently. Here are links to software that claim to do this: http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/index.html https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/Documents/UNIX/evtsys/ http://edoceo.com/creo/winlogd http://www.syslog.org/wiki/Main/Evtsys

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using MAC Authentication

2008-07-01 Thread Zeller, Tom S
1. Currently we have users manually register their wireless MAC address, but from then on they don't see the guest portal, have free access to the internet (minus port25) but can only do encrypted protocols to campus without VPN. This was designed to accommodate handheld devices that couldn't

802.11n, DFS2, and channel assignment in the 5 GHZ range

2007-11-19 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Interesting TechWorld article on an aspect of 802.11n rollout that I hadn't seen discussed before. http://tinyurl.com/2ebpd4 Tom Zeller Indiana University ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WPA or VPN

2006-09-24 Thread Zeller, Tom S
As to VPN hardware requirements, we have Cisco's new Adapative Security Appliance (ASA) in production using L2TP/IPSEC for both wireless and remote users. We have seen over 1200 users on a single server while CPU usage remains low. One ASA costs less than the older, now (or soon) end-of-lifed

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco VPN 3000 Macintosh VPN Client issues

2006-08-31 Thread Zeller, Tom S
At Indiana we require VPN for all non-guest wireless use. We use 3030's with native clients. It's been serviceable but not perfect. I heard similar complaints from Mac users, but not the level of this always happens when I move files. We never resolved the issue and have now moved to Cisco's

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs: broadcast and non-broadcast

2006-07-10 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Yes, Microsoft has documented that XP will prefer a broadcast SSID over a non-broadcast SSID irrespective of their order in the list. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/hiddennet. mspx However, if you remove the broadcast SSID from the list, there's no conflict. The

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs: broadcast and non-broadcast

2006-07-09 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I had difficulty making 802.1x work reliably against a non-broadcast SSID. However WPA-PSK seems to work fine. Using Proxim and HP APs. Tom Zeller Indiana University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jim Gogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:26 PM

802.1x Native Clients

2006-03-21 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I've been doing extensive testing of PEAP with the XP client and with Mac OS X 10.4. Our access points are mostly Proxim 600s with some HP 420s. Once connected it works great and will stay connected. However, getting connected is wildly inconsistent. On the mac I may have to hit connect one to

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Rogue Detection in Dorms...

2006-01-06 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I don't agree with this analysis. Students may have the right to use the spectrum on their personal network. I don't believe they have an inherent right to broadcast the university's network out into the dorm parking lot. [I'm not a lawyer, but I could play one on TV] Tom Zeller Indiana

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access strategy

2005-09-15 Thread Zeller, Tom S
At Indiana University we allow any faculty or staff to authenticate to a web page to generate a guest account. The accounts are ADS accounts. They accounts are not actually created by this process. We have a large pool of accounts that are initially disabled. When a user generates an account,

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access strategy

2005-09-15 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Some might be interested that the web-based guest wireless portal we are about to deploy is a new HP product. It's a blade (access control module) that goes into an HP 5300 switch. The switch is then configured to pass particular vlans through the blade. There is also a central controller

Future Wireless Design

2005-09-15 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Lee's comments about roaming brings up a difficult area I've been grappling with. Our architecture is the same as 4 years ago. Dumb APs, on a single vlan for roaming (actually two now on the largest campus) with vpn-protection. Roaming is not currently a huge issue as laptops sleep between

Cellular/WiFi voice devices - a scenario

2005-09-15 Thread Zeller, Tom S
I'd be interested in comments on the following scenario. I've heard it said that cellular carriers make money selling per-byte data services and therefore have no incentive to support and subsidize combo cell/WiFi devices. What if they are eventually forced into a flat-rate data scheme. This

Wireless Open Access- not sponsored guest access

2005-06-03 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Indiana University's wireless network is closed. We feel strongly that we need to associate a user with an IP address for forensic track-back. IU users create VPN connections to get off the subnet. Any faculty or staff can create a temporary ID via a web application that can be used to create a

Vernier simultaneous connections?

2005-04-29 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Title: WIRELESS-LAN Digest - 26 Apr 2005 to 28 Apr 2005 (#2005-52) Indiana University is planning to deploy a Vernier (rebranded by HP) for our guest wireless traffic. IU users will also transit the Vernier during the MAC address registration process. Once registered, theywill beon a

Guest Wireless Access

2004-09-03 Thread Zeller, Tom S
At Indiana University we have a web-based self-service mechanism for any faculty or staff to generate guest credentials. These are ADS accounts that expire after a week. We recycle the accounts, resetting the password for the next user and un-expiring them. These ADS accounts are not in the

RE: WIRELESS-LAN Digest - 22 Jun 2004 to 23 Jun 2004 (#2004-64)

2004-06-23 Thread Zeller, Tom S
Title: WIRELESS-LAN Digest - 22 Jun 2004 to 23 Jun 2004 (#2004-64) VLAN Spanning This condition is caused in Windows XP whenever you add a network card (such as a wireless PCI card) and go through the network wizard. In this case, by default, Microsoft decides to bridge the two