This might be old news, but it had a pleasant discovery this morning when I decided to hold the option key on a Mac with Leopard and click on the Wireless Menu Icon (4 arcs).
It shows: -Mac address of AP joined -Channel -RSSI -Transmit Rate It's going to our helpdesk folks right now! Best, Philippe ---------------------------------- Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Information Technology Network Services 108 James D Hoskins Library 1400 Cumberland Ave Knoxville, TN 37996 Tel: 1-865-9746555 ---------------------------------- On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: > Philippe: > > The most relevant stuff seems to start here: > http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0507&L=WIRELESS-LAN&P=R273 > 3&D=0&I=-3 > > Search for "5429" in the archives to get all relevant messages. > > From a previous posting: "Basically your authentication server has to send > back the proper EAP failure message in order to get Windows to re-prompt for > the password." > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Hanset [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:55 AM > To: Frank Bulk > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x and Password issues! > > Yes! > > We use secureW2, Radiator and LDAP, but have not seen any report > of IIRC for that case. > During spring break we plan to switch to PEAP, built-in Windows Client, > and AD (we already have that running for our Exchange install.). > > Philippe > > PS: our 802.1x is optional. We still don't know if it's not successful > because our implementation is cumbersome, or just because users > want ultimate convenience ;-) > > > ---------------------------------- > Philippe Hanset > University of Tennessee, Knoxville > Office of Information Technology > Network Services > 108 James D Hoskins Library > 1400 Cumberland Ave > Knoxville, TN 37996 > Tel: 1-865-9746555 > ---------------------------------- > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: > > > Philippe: > > > > IIRC, there was an issue with some RADIUS servers that was causing the > > supplicant not to prompt the user to enter their new password. Is that > your > > concern? > > > > Regards, > > > > Frank > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset > > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:30 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x and Password issues! > > > > All, > > > > How do you deal with 802.1x (eg: WPA2 EAP-PEAP) when: > > > > - your campus has a 6 months password change policy and > > - your email and 802.1x are sharing the same password (AD or LDAP) and > > - your users are storing the password on the supplicant and > > - those users don't realize that when they change their password they have > > to change their supplicant password as well? > > > > Experience, thoughts? > > > > Do you have a lot of calls in your help desk related to this? > > If you had this issue how did you solve it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Philippe > > > > ---------------------------------- > > Philippe Hanset > > University of Tennessee, Knoxville > > Office of Information Technology > > Network Services > > ---------------------------------- > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Jon Freeman wrote: > > > > > FYI - this configuration does not conform to the 802.11 specifications. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Jon > > > 303-808-2666 > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Philippe Hanset [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:43 PM Pacific Standard Time > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using 4 channels rather then 3 for the > > 2.4ghz wifi > > > > > > Nick, > > > > > > We have been doing 1-4-7-11 > > > (but 1-4-8-11 makes more sense) > > > since 2000 and even with 802.11g we still like it. > > > The loss that you get from overlapping is largely regained > > > by having a 4th channel. > > > Other sources advise to play with smaller cell and reducing the > milliwatts > > > emitted from the AP instead of using 4 channels! > > > CIROND published a paper about the usage of 4 channels as well, > > > (search for CIROND, 4 channels, 802.11b...) > > > warning that though it is acceptable with CCK, it might create problems > > > with OFDM! > > > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------- > > > Philippe Hanset > > > University of Tennessee, Knoxville > > > Office of Information Technology > > > Network Services > > > 108 James D Hoskins Library > > > 1400 Cumberland Ave > > > Knoxville, TN 37996 > > > Tel: 1-865-9746555 > > > ---------------------------------- > > > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Urrea, Nick wrote: > > > > > > > We have a large study room at UC Hastings which accommodates up to 150 > > > > students. > > > > > > > > On average I see about 80-100 users using the wifi in the room. > > > > > > > > To load balance the wifi in the room I have setup 4 APs. > > > > > > > > Right now we use the 3 non-overlapping 2.4ghz channels, 1, 6, and 11. > > > > > > > > The 4 APs are line of sight with each. > > > > > > > > Do you think it would be a good idea to go to 4 channels instead 3 > > > > > > > > Ex: (1, 4, 8, 11) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > Nicholas Urrea > > > > > > > > Information Technology > > > > > > > > UC Hastings College of the Law > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > x4718 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ********** > > > > 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/. > > > > > > > > > > ********** > > 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/. > > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
