Interesting… Without a captive portal, how do you stop “drive-by” devices that probe all open networks for Internet access, consuming ip addresses needlessly?
We found we needed a captive portal to discourage those, mainly mobile, devices from exhausting our Guest DHCP scopes. Bruce Osborne Wireless Engineer IT Network Services - Wireless (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Paul Miklas [mailto:pmik...@stedwards.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:38 PM Subject: Re: Open Networks in Resnet At St. Edward's we are running 4 SSIDs and sometimes a 5th for special events. SEU for the majority on 802.1x SEU-Guest as an open network with port / subnet restrictions, also the first semester of not using a captive portal with our guest network SEU-Help for our on boarding eduroam ________________________________ From: "Lee H Badman" <lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> To: WIRELESS-LAN@listserv.educause.edu<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@listserv.educause.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 2:35:00 PM Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open Networks in Resnet <Spin off from conversation on MAC device self-registration> Other than Jeff Sessler at Scripps, who else is running an open network in their resnet environment? Off-list answer is fine, if you prefer. I’d like to bounce a few questions off of those doing this, off-list. Kind regards, Lee Badman Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) Information Technology Services 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu ********** 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/.
