We have only allowed one mac address per switch port in our Residence Halls for a long time now. Our wireless seems to work fairly well here.
-- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Pederson" <justinpeder...@caspercollege.edu> To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:26:56 AM Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Dorms >From a technical standpoint, why not just use port security on you wired >networks to only allow 1 MAC address at a time. There should be no rouge APs >and the students could still use the wireless and wired networks. I have been >rolling this around in my head for a little while now. The only thing you >should have to cover is cellular tethering, but from my experience, most of >these devices don't have much power behind the radio. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Ian McDonald < i...@st-andrews.ac.uk > wrote: Breach of your written policy prohibiting such things isn’t a disciplinary matter? And can’t be fixed with your disciplinary system? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU ] On Behalf Of T. Shayne Ghere Sent: 16 October 2014 16:11 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Dorms Good morning. Let me say first off, we’re nearly a complete Cisco shop other than our Firewalls right now. We are running 3 – Cisco 5508 Wireless Lan Controllers and Cisco WCS. The AP’s in the Dorm’s and Greek houses are all 1142N AP’s and have been spaced accordingly by Cisco and by us during the introduction of wireless in the Dorms, Greeks and Single housing. We are having a heck of a time with all the interference that the students bring with them making our wireless nearly unusable. I know this topic has come up in the past, but this year is one of the worst we’ve seen, and the students are getting restless. We have the ability to quarantine rogue Wireless clients, however according to a recent Court case against a large Hotel Chain, it was decided that on an open free wireless spectrum, we would be breaking the law in jamming it. How have you addressed this issue? I’m about ready to ask upper management to remove the AP’s in all the Dorm buildings and let the students bring their own AP’s if they want wireless. Has anyone resorted to this? Thanks for your input Shayne ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/ . -- Thanks, Justin Pederson IT Network Coordinator Casper College (307)268-2481 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
