Hi Mike, That SSID does not have any special firewall policies on it. A student could spoof their MAC or register their laptop and say it was something else if they wanted to. We don't really care, because a lot of these devices can browse the web and do tons of things online too. For example, a student could install Linux on their Playstation 3 and be connected to this SSID and we aren't really going to notice. Our WPA2 Enterprise SSID is pretty easy to connect to and we help students with that process, so I don't know of anyone trying to connect to the devices SSID.
The majority of our dorms are wireless-only, which led us to take this approach. We are very strong advocates of the notion that the dorms are "home" for our students, so we want them to do be able to do things like play games here. I can't imagine the reaction we would get if students couldn't play on Xbox Live in the dorms. There are over 200 Xbox 360s alone... :) Take care, Matt Barber Network Analyst Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Dickson Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] gaming consoles on wi-fi? Hi Matt, Curious, does your "gaming" SSID have any (role based) firewall policies to ensure that laptops don't migrate to this SSID, or do you not care if they do? We'll be facing the same challenge. We have a gaming-unfriendly 802.1x SSID (WPA/TTLS/PAP/AES) and a captive portal SSID that we're hoping to make go away, not grow. We'll also soon have many wireless-only dorms so telling gamers to plug in is not an option. --Mike ******************************************************** Michael Dickson 413.545.9639 Network Analyst Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst ******************************************************** On 2/19/2010 2:26 PM, Barber, Matt wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > Your proposed solution is how we handled it. We have a separate SSID > using PSK and MAC filtering. Our web folks made a page to register > devices. Students just enter their username, what type of device it is, > and the MAC address. I manually handle the entry, because students will > sometimes make a mistake in the MAC address or not know what to put > there. Some students have problems finding the MAC on some devices, but > I have been making guides for the popular ones. Those go up on the > website where they register too. > > Overall it works very well and I am up to over 600 devices registered in > this way. Hopefully more devices will support 802.1x in the future (like > the iPhone/iPod Touch do) but who knows. > > Take care! > > *Matt Barber* > > Network Analyst > > Morrisville State College > > 315-684-6053 > > *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Marcelo Lew > *Sent:* Friday, February 19, 2010 2:13 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] gaming consoles on wi-fi? > > We are getting more and more requests to connect gaming consoles on our > wi-fi network. Gaming consoles don't currently support > wpa/wpa2-enterprise (they all do support psk), and I have not had any > luck finding a wireless gaming adapter that does either. I guess another > ssid with pre-share key/ mac-address registration would be an option for > now. Could I get some input from the group on how you guys are doing it? > And if with mac-address registration, how is the process accomplished? > Are students satisfied with the process? > > Thanks! > > Marcelo Lew > > Wireless Network Specialist > > University Technology Services > > University of Denver > > Desk: (303) 871-6523 > > Cell: (303) 669-4217 > > Fax: (303) 871-5900 > > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > ********** 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/.
