We piloted it last academic year in one building on campus and have since expanded coverage to all areas on campus. I do not have numbers for the total number of concurrent users, but I know that it is certainly not above 100 users. We operated it on two WISM modules using 7.0.98.0 code all last year and just upgraded to 7.0.116.0 code across all our controllers (10) campus wide.
The only issue I have consistently griped about, yet I have not spent much time at all to resolve, has been that if your browser has a default website (home page) defined, it does not open and certainly does not redirect to the Cisco Controller Web authentication page. One must manually enter a new website for the captive authentication to redirect/take effect. -dan From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kellogg, Brian D. Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco wireless web authentication portal We use it for ~2000 users and it has worked well. We use a 24 hour timeout as well. Running version 6.0.202 code on our version one WISM. Fyi, Brian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John York Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cisco wireless web authentication portal We are using it on our 5508, but in a much smaller installation (1 controller, 50 AP's, ~150 users peak.) I've complained about problems with it in the past, but since we went to 7.0.116.0 it's done very well for us. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Roth Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco wireless web authentication portal Has anyone on the list used the built in web authentication in the Cisco WLAN infrastructure? At peak time we see 5000+ authenticated MAC addresses across 12 wireless controllers (6 WiSM blades). We were thinking of implementing the web authentication using LDAP as a backup in the event that our NAC system fails. We would maybe do something like a 24 hour time-out. The idea is just to make sure that only campus affiliated users were connecting to our SSID. Thanks, --Joe -- Joe Roth Networking Group Binghamton University Ph. 607-777-7528 Fax 607-777-4009 ********** 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/.
