Lee,
We've had good experience with the Id Engines 802.1X installer.
Initially we couldn't find an installer that would do 100% of the 802.1X
configuration so we wrote our own that created the 802.1X wireless SSID,
configured encryption, server certificates, and MSCHAP properties. However that
was hard to support as new 3rd party supplicants came out. Our testing showed
that the Id Engine's performed as well as our installer and included Macintosh
support. It seems to work most of the time and they are really good about fixing
problems as soon you find them. So far they are the only solution that does 100%
of the configuration and I'd highly recommend them.
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David Spindler
University of Texas at Austin
Phone:
512-475-9299(w)
512-775-8033(c)
Public Key at : http://webspace.utexas.edu/~spindler/pubkey.txt
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Lee H Badman wrote:
We are roughly 2/3 of the way through a migration of users to 802.1x,
having retired our wireless VPN option and working towards drastically
reducing our captive portal gateways. Before the opening of school, we
put a lot of effort into "scripting" client configuration utilities for
XP, Vista, and Mac, which basically created a new wireless profile on
each machine using the native supplicant in each OS.
We did look at both ID Engines and Juniper's Odyssey client as potential
alternatives, but each had limits at the time (no Vista support, no Mac,
no support for foreign languages, etc)
Although our methods were pretty good, as we look towards improvement
we're wondering if anyone has actually tried ID Engines on a large scale
(we have 5,000 + users on when we get busy, and that will grow fast as
the WLAN continues to grow), and wouldn't mind sharing feedback?
Thanks-
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
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