Hi Greg,

We have not seen any MAC spoofing in the couple years we have been doing this. 
We do have a guest SSID available for people to use for basic web access, so 
there probably isn't a whole lot of motivation to try it.

Matt Barber
Network Analyst
Morrisville State College
315-684-6053

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I am curious about this - do you see any mac address spoofing with this 
solution? i.e. people spoofing their mac address on their laptops for the 
registered one on the game console or are you doing any kind of DHCP 
fingerprinting in addition to registering the mac address.  This is one reason 
why we haven't done it yet.

Greg Williams
IT Department
719-255-3597
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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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

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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
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