Going back in time, there was buzz about devices lacking the math co-processing 
power and such needed to support AES when WPA2 became available, so the TKIP 
thing took root. It is my conjecture that any device of any kind manufactured 
in the last few years that can run WPA/TKIP (enterprise) can also happily do 
WPA2/AES (enterprise).

Of course, that doesn’t help with all of the toys that show up only able to do 
WPA-pre-share... sigh.



Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
315 443-3003

 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Coleman
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off TKIP to enable N

Cisco Wireless shop as well and you don't need to to turn off TKIP to allow N 
your AP's just need to support N, That being said we are primarily Cisco 1252 
and I made the call not to order the A radios (cost usage wise I'm still right 
but at this point we are retrofitting AP's to bleed whatever performance gains 
we can).

I'm in the process of gathering usernames from WCS that connect with tkip so 
our help desk can contact them and verify the why of them using tkip, is it a 
hardware limit or improper configuration (802.11b was largely a configuration 
problem)

Statistics right now (minus the 1500 plus clients the will show up in the next 
hour or two)


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These statistics are included above but should be subtracted from above because 
they operate under separate controllers and code base (Cisco 1510's are 
supported as well as 802.11b), This is HUD Housing so even the occasional 
windows 98 user is possible.


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Joshua Coleman | Network Infrastructure Engineer University of Florida 
Department of Housing and Residence Education PO Box 112100 | Gainesville, FL 
32611-2100 office 352.392.2171 x12053 | fax 352.392.6819 | 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[[email protected]] on behalf of Nick Kartsioukas 
[[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Turning off TKIP to enable N

All these graphs showing everyone's N clients is making me feel way behind the 
times. We still have TKIP allowed on WPA. Has anyone else recently gone through 
the transition of disabling TKIP in order to enable N? If so, what issues did 
you run into with older equipment (both student and institution owned)?
We're a Cisco wireless shop, I've got WCS installed but haven't had time to set 
up any kind of reporting on it yet. I know the few times I've remembered to 
check there haven't been any TKIP clients, but I'll need more than just a few 
slices in time to be sure.
--
Nick Kartsioukas
Cuesta College Computer Services
805-546-3248

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