On 4/28/2014 9:23 PM, Peter Arbouin wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone is using eduroam CAT
<https://cat.eduroam.org/> for eduroam client configuration. Our client
support manager found it while visiting another institution and asked if
I was aware of it, or how we add our institution.
It seems fairly intuitive, once you get your institution listed.
Yes, we really like it. Our login is passwords via PEAP/MSCHAPv2, so it
mostly works to just bang in your username and password when prompted,
but using the CAT tool installs and trusts all the necessary certs to
identify our RADIUS server.
On iOS and OS X in particular, CAT avoids the Apple re-connection bug,
and thus gives a better connection than doing it manually, unless you
know to take the step to trust the server cert.
So far every student complain about iPhone and "wifi is intermittent" is
a case where the phone had been connected "manually"; deleting the
manual eduroam config and running the iOS CAT has given a totally solid
connection.
(I wonder if we should switch back to something that doesn't seem to
"just work" by default (e.g. TTLS/PAP) so that more people would be
forced to find the CAT tool to get on line.)
The one issue we have (and I've not yet looked very hard for a fix nor
contacted the CAT team) is that pre-802.1X connection, we have a
"sandboxed" open SSID with instructions for joining eduroam, with local
copies of the CAT tools. It would be handy if I could use something
simple like curl with a cronjob to update my local copies, but the fancy
CAT site, which autodetects the user's origin and has the graphic menu
as shown, does not seem to use obvious URLs for any of the tool
downloads. So, we manually update our local copies every once in a
while, which seems non-optimal.
Steve Bohrer
ITS, Bard College at Simon's Rock
413-528-7645
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