On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:21 AM, debbie fligor wrote:
nice! and finally a way to tell if you are on b/g or a for a Mac
user -- the channel number will clue you in.
The option key method is nicer since it gives you more info but
you can see if you are on b/g or a even on Tiger by clicking on the
Apple Icon and "About this Mac" and then click on "More Info" and
then select Network/AirPort card.
Alternatively you can just run the System profiler since that is
what clicking on "More Info" on the "About this Mac" window does.
On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:06, Philippe Hanset wrote:
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
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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
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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 ;-)
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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
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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
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Philippe Hanset
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Office of Information Technology
Network Services
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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
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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
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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)
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