No Problem Danny. I'm just breathing again ;-)

On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Danny Eaton <[email protected]> wrote:

> You are correct, my apologies.  @rice.edu goes to 'staff' or 'student', @*.*
> goes to visitor.
> 
> 
>> That setup is similar to what we're doing - if any of our @rice.edu 
>> users join the eduroam, we then assign them in either the 
>> 'staff/faculty' or 'student' role/VLAN group which maps to a specific 
>> MPLS/VPN.  If someone from  @*.edu joins, they get assigned to our 
>> 'visitor' role/VLAN group which also maps to our visitor MPLS/VPN.
> 
> 
> Danny,
> 
> @rice.edu gets assigned to specific VLANs @*.edu  gets assigned to visitor
> VLANs
> 
> What about @other-R&E-domains (.ac.it, .nih.gov, nyser.net,...)?
> Are you really selecting on @*.edu, or you are passing all others to the
> visitor VLAN?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe
> www.eduroam.us
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> We've been considering this problem as part of our eduroam deployment 
>> (we're still in the configuring and testing stage, no services offered 
>> yet), and we decided one of our goals would be that instead of trying 
>> to force students to pick the right one, that we would instead 
>> configure the network side so that our users didn't have to care.
>> 
>> Remember that the identity provided for eduroam has the university 
>> name as the realm.  Our plan is to take any users that identify with 
>> our realm of wpi..edu to the eduroam SSID, and send back a RADIUS 
>> attribute that drops them on the same VLAN as our primary university 
>> SSID.  (In our case we're also keying off of the client MAC address 
>> and correlating with our IPAM registration database, but that's an 
>> optional extra step.)  That way any of our users can connect to either 
>> the university SSID or eduroam and get exactly the same connectivity, 
>> while any external eduroam guests get dropped onto our guest VLAN.
>> 
>> Simple, clean, and completely transparent to our users.
>> 
>> Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu    |  For every problem, there is a solution
>> that
>> Manager of Network Operations   |  is simple, elegant, and wrong.
>> Worcester Polytechnic Institute |           - HL Mencken
>> 
>> On 03/10/2014 11:51 AM, Linchuan Yang wrote:
>>> Dear All
>>> 
>>> Good morning. We noticed that most our iphone clients connect to the
>> "eduroam"
>>> SSID automatically when they step into the campus (not our normal 
>>> SSID for students, faculty, and staff). And the encryption and 
>>> security settings are same between these two SSIDs. These clients 
>>> have to manually change the wireless configuration on the iphones, 
>>> and they can
>> connect to our normal SSID.
>>> 
>>> We are using Cisco WLCs, and other devices (e.g. laptops, Android,
>>> etc.) do not have this problem.
>>> 
>>> Do you have the similar issue with your wireless network? Is there 
>>> any connection strategies of iphone?
>>> 
>>> Thank you, and have a nice day.
>>> 
>>> Yours,
>>> 
>>> Linchuan Yang (Antony)
>>> 
>>> Wireless Networking Analyst
>>> Network Assessment and Integration,
>>> IITS-Concordia University
>>> Tel: (514)848-2424 ext. 7664
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