Done. It's called 802.11u which is now part of 802.11 The SSID will soon be irrelevant anyway. All you will do is a Roaming Operator challenge!
Philippe On Nov 12, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote: > Also... Does anyone get a bit turned off about having yet another SSID in the > air, or debranding your own in favor of pushing Eduroam as your SSID? Again, > just wondering. Let's task Phillipe with figuring out a way to make the > Eduroam underpinnings work automagically with any SSID we choose. > > Can we get that by Friday? > > > > On Nov 12, 2012, at 21:36, "Lee H Badman" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nah, just like to understand the benefit before making changes. Trying to >> gage how many nomadic WLAN users are really roaming from school to school, >> as opposed to users connecting to it on their own campus. Seems like a fair >> exercise:) >> >> Sent from an Etch-a-Sketch. Please excuse squiggly lines. >> >> On Nov 12, 2012, at 19:44, "Hanset, Philippe C" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 12, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Lee H Badman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Does anyone keep stats on how much your Eduroam efforts get used? Like, >>>> other than just being in the club, is it really providing benefits that an >>>> easy-to-use guest network wouldn't? Not being snarky, but genuinely >>>> wondering. >>>> >>> >>> How can you beat instant authentication with encryption over the air? >>> Even an open network doesn't give that! >>> I walk on a campus and my phone automatically switches from 3G to Wi-Fi for >>> Data, not hitting my less than adequate quotas >>> >>> You are the hardest man to convince Lee ;-) >>> >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> >>>>> Our email addresses are [email protected] unless there are conflicts, >>>>> in which case we use a middle initial or a suffix. >>>>> >>>>> Our official "UTCid" is a rather arbitrary string (3 letters, 3 numbers, >>>>> where that came from don't ask me, it was back in the "no-SSNs" >>>>> conversion). >>>>> >>>>> The directory key / userID is in fact the UTCid, and is typically used >>>>> as a login for everything. It's also the Active Directory ID. >>>>> >>>>> And now the bonus... the AD domain is in fact utc.tennessee.edu (we're >>>>> a "branch" of the state's tennessee.edu domain), so there's already some >>>>> confusion as to using the tennessee.edu versus utc.edu. Even worse... >>>>> there are root forest entries for [email protected] as well as >>>>> @utc.tennessee.edu. And of course UTK started the whole eduroam thing, >>>>> and they're already taking tennessee.edu as local :( although they still >>>>> take utk.edu as well. >>>>> >>>>> So we more or less got stuck with [email protected] to avoid the >>>>> domain/realm confusion with the big orange one. >>>>> >>>>> I would advise you rig up your local .1X to authenticate with your >>>>> fully-qualified eduroam username, just so users can consistently login >>>>> with the same credentials (assuming you're not using eduroam for >>>>> production .1X). >>>>> >>>>> Jeff >>>>> >>>>> On 11/12/2012 6:11 PM, Julian Y Koh wrote: >>>>>> So we're looking at an eduroam deployment here, and one question that >>>>>> has come up is one of credentials. Here at NU, we have 2 identifiers - >>>>>> the NetID and the alias. All of the directories and the like are keyed >>>>>> off of the NetID, which does not have to be the same as the alias. >>>>>> Top-level email addresses take the form <alias>@northwestern.edu. >>>>>> >>>>>> Under a basic default eduroam deployment, a user would use >>>>>> <netid>@northwestern.edu as his/her username to authenticate to the >>>>>> wireless network. This is not 100% ideal from an end user point of >>>>>> view, though, since that could potentially lead to some confusion since >>>>>> at least here, netid rarely is the same as alias. Obviously, at some >>>>>> schools, netid = alias, so this is a moot point, but have other schools >>>>>> encountered support/documentation issues because of this? >>>>>> >>>>>> As an alternative, has anyone looking into using a subdomain for the >>>>>> realm? i.e., <netid>@eduroam.northwestern.edu? >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried going through the FAQs and documentation at >>>>>> <http://www.eduroamus.org/>, and there is some mention of avoiding >>>>>> subdomains at <http://www.eduroamus.org/node/29>. >>>>>> >>>>>> Personally, I think with good enough documentation we should be able to >>>>>> do the standard <netid>@northwestern.edu without a lot of trouble, but >>>>>> we also need to do due diligence and explore these options. :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks!! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ********** >>>>> 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/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
