Why not just treat eduroam across the campus in this open way, ie don't restrict it (within reason).
Oli On 11 March 2015 at 13:47, Hector J Rios <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m wondering how many of you treat the wireless in the ResHalls > differently from the wireless on the rest of your campus. In terms of > geography, we have 21 ResHalls that are in the perimeter of our campus. > Some of these buildings are next to academic or administrative buildings. > Eduroam is our main SSID. So, for the longest time it has only made sense > to broadcast eduroam everywhere. Now, on the wired side of the house, our > ResHalls have a dedicated connection that gives them direct, non-firewall > access to the internet (for access to campus resources, a student must > VPN). This came about as a request from the students to have more freedom > in their residence. Makes sense. But wireless is different as it goes > through our campus core, traverses our perimeter firewall, and goes out our > main internet connection. > > > > I’ve struggled to find an alternative solution to this. We recognize that > students in ResHalls are different in the sense that they pay for a place > to live and should get an internet service that is similar to their home > service. However, any alternatives that we have considered (separate SSID, > dynamic VLAN assignment, user groups) just seem to complicate the setup. > > > > Any good ideas out there or creative ways in which you have tackled this > challenge? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hector Rios, CCNP, CCA > > Assistant Director, Network Engineering > > Dept. of Networking and Infrastructure > > Information Technology Services > > Louisiana State University > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > -- Oliver Elliott Senior Network Specialist IT Services University of Bristol e: [email protected] t: 0117 39 (41131) ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
