Mike,

My Security Officer requires us to have a Banner page for wireless login ins, 
even for the one that will use 802.1 (WPA/WPA2).    We haven't set up our 
RADIUS device  for VLAN assignments as of yet, we are still discussing how we 
will implement that down the road.   We are moving away from the Bluesocket and 
plan on placing a WISM into production come fall.  I did do some more reading 
and believe that I will need a separate SSID that is set up for MAC 
filtering/authentication (to control who can use this SSID) to allow 
facility/staff mobile devices to access the network after they authenticate.  I 
am just not sure I am going about it the right way.

Mike

v/r

Michael M. Williams
Network Systems Analyst
Information Technology Services
Tarleton State University
Box T-0220
Stephenville, TX
Tel: (254) 968-1850
Fax: (254) 968-9393
[email protected]








From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike King
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Mobile device authentication

Mike,

I'm not sure what your goal is....
are you offering the webpage bypass for devices that cannot display the page 
(Mobile devices/cellphones), or are you just offering ANY faculty and staff 
device the option of bypassing the webpage? (IE laptops)

but I can offer this:

You can have 1 SSID performing 802.1x.   That SSID can put users on different 
VLANs based on group membership.  You could theorectially have faculty and 
staff dropped on a different VLAN that does not even terminate on the 
bluesocket device, and students put on a 2nd VLAN that does terminate on the 
bluesocket device.

My point would be, with 802.1x and WPA2, you would not need a 
web-authentication portal, since you will always know what user is associated 
based on the RADIUS logs / WCS Display.  I wouldn't even think that you would 
need to have the students on the the bluesocket.

Now, if you use the bluesocket for anything more than as a authentication  
gateway (remediation, access control, etc.... ) then this might not apply so 
much to you.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Williams, Mr. Michael 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:



  We are currently in the process of setting up our WISM and WCS server and 
plan on putting it into production in the fall.  We also have 86 autonomous APs 
which will be converted over to Light AP.  We currently have a Bluesocket 
device which is used as an authentication gateway.  Bluesocket allows me to 
store MAC address (mostly IPhones) for facility and staff member which allows 
them to bypass the web login page.  I would like to continue this using the 
WISM and WCS.  We currently do not use encryption on our network, but  plan on 
enforcing WPA/WPA2 (using Cisco RADIUS SE) for all SSIDs, except for our 
visitors and other guests.



  We would like to continue using web authentication bypass for facility and 
staff but require them to use WPA/WPA2 and their domain credentials. The 
question I have is as follows.  How can I accomplish this?  Do I need to create 
a separate SSID that restricts access via ones MAC?  Or is there another method 
that would work?



Thanks



Mike





v/r



Michael M. Williams

Network Systems Analyst

Information Technology Services

Tarleton State University

Box T-0220

Stephenville, TX

Tel: (254) 968-1850

Fax: (254) 968-9393

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
















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