We had one come up today. Police needing access to system but from a few blocks 
away (out of eye sight). My wireless connection may reach the sidewalk out 
front but I doubt the signal is even 25% there. What do you do in a disaster 
plan to get the police access to video footage inside the building?

-Heath Henderson

On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Michael Bendorf <bendo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What about purely public. Sounds like Zobel does not let strangers on during 
> ball games, how about the rest of you? What about the neighbors that live 
> across the street or next door?
> 
> I am really trying to find an acceptable middle ground. I do not want to go 
> into the ISP business, but I want to share this resource with my community.
> 
> 
> --Michael T. Bendorf--
> Technology Administrator
> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262
> 217.476.3312 ext. 2019
> Cellular: 217.306.6824
> 
> "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your 
> lectures so that I do not need you any more."
> 
> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for 
> others.
> 
> "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous 
> flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using 
> poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
> 
> - Alan Kay
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Zobel <zob...@husd4.k12.il.us> wrote:
> I haven't changed anything specifically in my AUP, but I probably should, 
> this was kind of the trial run to see if people used it and how it worked.  I 
> only really have students on and they have all signed an AUP.  I don't have a 
> user authentication trail, but I have their MAC address in the wireless and 
> can see them move around from AP to AP.  The filter records everything so I 
> have a trail that way too and the filter is really locked down.  I had to 
> open it a little because yahoo was fully blocked.  They can't do anything 
> that I would block on the regular side, so webmail, myspace and facebook are 
> blocked.  They can search and look up general stuff.  I have DHCP so I can 
> see the name of the device so in our school I could look through Skyward and 
> have staff pick out the student who had the device.  If I found something 
> funny I can block the MAC right on the wireless and then they are done.  I 
> have not heard complaints about I can't get to this site.  I think most 
> students think that they are being sneeky because they are on the wireless.  
> They aren't suppose to have the devices out during the school day so there 
> isn't much traffic. 
>  
> I have had our wireless up for 2 years and had students ask when is it going 
> to get opened up and I always told them I wasn't until I could control it.  
> What I want to do is connect everything via LDAP, but Ruckus hasn't pushed 
> out the eDir LDAP part.  So if I switch to Windows I can have direct user 
> authentication and would bring students in under that, but still keep them 
> tunneled to the outside world.  With staff I create a user on the wireless 
> and it manages the user by installing a program on the device to set 
> everything up from what SSID it uses to the group they are in. 
>  
> The stuff I am more worried about is the MI-Fi's that is see come up on the 
> wireless system and other things like that can allow others to access.  Even 
> our iMacs can turn into a hot spot so I am happy with the guest part.
>  
> Dan
> 
> >>> "Michael T. Bendorf" <bendo...@a-ccentral.us> 10/21/2010 9:57 AM >>>
> 
> Dan, that is awesome and exactly what I am planning to do over the next 
> couple weeks, but did you add any verbage to your AUP to address it. Also, 
> how do you handle abuse without an associated AAA trail?
> 
> --Michael T. Bendorf--
> Technology Administrator
> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262
> Google Voice: 217.408.0043
> 
> "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your 
> lectures so that I do not need you any more."
> 
> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for 
> others.
> 
> "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous 
> flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using 
> poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
> - Alan Kay
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Daniel Zobel <zob...@husd4.k12.il.us> wrote:
> This is one on the things I love about my Ruckus system. It has a built I'm 
> guest ssid that I put on it's own vlan and it auto tunnels to the outside. It 
> has an aup that says you are under the schools agreement of the aup. I have 
> to give rights to the tunnel to hit our webserver. With my filter, cynphonix, 
> then it is set to even stricter settings then student filtering, but they can 
> still do what they want for the basic stuff. I also put the filter on a time 
> limit so the guest only works from 7:45 - 4:00 during the weekday. I also put 
> a bandwidth limit that allows only a trickle up and down. The majority of 
> people use it for their iPods. Some students bring in a laptop. It works 
> really well.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Ben Story <ben.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> In the Cisco controllers there is the concept of a lobby ambassador role. 
>> This person is given access to the controllers and is allowed to create a 
>> temporary username and password for the guest network. the guest is then 
>> prompted by a capture portal for those credentials along with the AUP. In 
>> this scenario, the school secretary or someone like that would have to give 
>> the person access. Not great for sporting events, but during the day it 
>> would work well and keep the kids off the guest network.
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Michael T. Bendorf <bendo...@a-ccentral.us> 
>> wrote:
>> right - sure - just MAY - but I agree that it is expected and frankly: we 
>> want to offer it.
>> I just want to document it and have policy to point to: right now our AUP is 
>> written in language that assumes the user is logging into AD with assigned 
>> credentials.
>> Public access does away with most of Authentication, Authorization, and 
>> Accounting (AAA.) It also seems to open a door for students to jump over to 
>> the public side with whatever device they have brought in to get online 
>> without leaving an obvious trail. The content would still be filtered, but 
>> the AAA is gone...
>> 
>> 
>> --Michael T. Bendorf--
>> Technology Administrator
>> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262
>> Google Voice: 217.408.0043
>> 
>> "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during 
>> your lectures so that I do not need you any more."
>> 
>> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for 
>> others.
>> 
>> "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous 
>> flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using 
>> poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
>> - Alan Kay
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Bob Morse <bmo...@d168.org> wrote:
>> The new e-rate rules do not mandate that if our Internet access is paid for
>> by e-rate that we MUST give access to the public.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org
>> [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of JimHays
>> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:52 AM
>> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Public Wireless access policy
>> 
>> At some point we need to understand and realize that we are not in a
>> corporation but we are a public service institution paid for by public
>> money. With the proliferation of wireless devices - and wait until
>> Christmas this year when almost EVERYONE will have either a smartphone
>> or some kind of wireless Internet device - the public will expect to
>> have access when they attend school events. We can't just hid behind
>> our conservative, staff-only, policies. We need to adjust with the
>> times and give the public what is expected. Even USAC realizes this now
>> with their new rule changes which allow public access to school networks
>> paid for by E-Rate funds. (Be sure you understand those rules before
>> giving public access to E-Rate funded Internet. At this time we don't
>> use E-Rate to pay for our Internet so we are not governed by those rules
>> even though our public access does fall under the new rules' scope.)
>> 
>> Heath Henderson wrote:
>> > We have a similar stance but have to allow people such as tri county
>> special ed doing IEP work and visiting student teachers etc on at some
>> > Point. I don't like it but really what is stopping them from jacking into
>> a port on the network and getting physical access that way. Lesser of the
>> unhook of a cable is easier for me to deal with.
>> >
>> > -Heath Henderson
>> >
>> > On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Dan Ragen <dera...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> While I don't have a District wide or School wide wireless system the
>> >> access points i do have a re for
>> >> District personnel only. I think that you may run into trouble
>> >> letting others in. Think of it this way, Would you let
>> >> some one in on one of your desktops? I usually take a very
>> >> conservative approach to this type of situation.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Michael T. Bendorf
>> >> <bendo...@a-ccentral.us> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Now that my wireless is installed (last AP fired up this afternoon) I
>> have
>> >>> had requests for the password to get on.
>> >>> I have not provided that to anyone, but rather explained that things
>> were
>> >>> not ready for public access yet...
>> >>> All of my district owned equipment has the PSK and can connect as though
>> >>> they are hard wired...but I wonder what other districts do for public
>> >>> access. For instance I had a student from the neighboring district want
>> to
>> >>> get online here to do some homework before practice (we co-op with this
>> >>> other school.) I really felt bad saying not yet - but that is the truth
>> of
>> >>> it.
>> >>> We have an active directory and we push out browser proxy settings via
>> GPO.
>> >>> Everyone must firs sign our current AUP and then they must authenticate
>> with
>> >>> our CIPAFilter before egressing to the Internet. I want to provide "the
>> >>> public" access to a filtered Internet experience. I do not want visiting
>> >>> mobile devices to access anything other than the public Internet. This
>> seems
>> >>> pretty strightforward, but something I have not set up before.
>> >>> Even more than just the config of my HP ProCurve MSM APs/Controller my
>> real
>> >>> question is how do you address this from a policy point of view? Do you
>> have
>> >>> a separate document? Do you ask guests to sign something? Click on
>> >>> something? Is it part of your general AUP? etc?.?.?.
>> >>>
>> >>> --Michael T. Bendorf--
>> >>> Technology Administrator
>> >>> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262
>> >>> Google Voice: 217.408.0043
>> >>> "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during
>> >>> your lectures so that I do not need you any more."
>> >>>
>> >>> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way
>> for
>> >>> others.
>> >>>
>> >>> "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the
>> enormous
>> >>> flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers
>> using
>> >>> poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
>> >>> - Alan Kay
>> >>>
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>> >> Dupo CUSD 196
>> >> 600 Louisa Ave
>> >> Dupo, IL 62239
>> >> Phone - 618-286-3214 x2141
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