Yeah we have had this problem at a few different levels... sorry for the long 
response

Initially we had AARNET (the Australian national operator) sharing our floor, 
so we managed to experience the issue first hand. At that stage we got approval 
to change our SSID to resolve the issue. "eduroam-UofA" was chosen and our 
normal ssid is "UofA". To be honest this is not an ideal solution, and at the 
time (and probably still) is not actually allowed. It brakes the idea of 
eduroam simply working, the plan is you configure your device once and you can 
then go to any participating institution around the world, turn your device on 
and away you go. Having a different SSID means more support requests for you 
and the home institution when it doesn't just work.  At the time (2007) the 
usage wasn't as high so it wasn't a huge issue..... though supplicants tended 
be troublesome to configure.  A few years later AARnet offices moved and we 
wanted to be standard so we are back to "eduroam" SSID. 

It's not all over though, we have multiple institutions (3) around us offering 
eduroam including buildings 15m away, and a new medical precinct is being built 
that will potentially end up with 5 different institutions in an area. Finally 
something on the back burner is the our city wireless offering eduroam.... So 
the future will get interesting. But onto the current situation. To be honest 
at this point we haven't had too many issues recently with users hopping 
between SSID's in their offices. Likely the fact we don't recommend eduroam as 
the users primary SSID would be the primary reason. We did  have a few calls on 
the close buildings years back, however coverage was done differently and it 
wasn't un-common in non-dense installs to sometimes see higher signal from 
neighbouring buildings in some rooms. But with denser deployments and more 
consistent signal provision you rarely see neighbouring buildings with higher 
signal.... In addition for eduroam visitors as a workaround they can use our 
"UofA" SSID, don't remember this ever being required but it does work. eduroam  
participation "requires" that SSID but as far as I'm aware doesn’t stop you 
from also offering it on others, or even wired dot1x for that matter. 

Likely we'll never go to eduroam as the only SSID for the many neighbours 
reason as well as it's good to have your branding in the air. You can also have 
issues like Curtis is mentioning where you want to change something for 
security or other reasons but may be restricted by eduroam policy. I don't 
think eduroam would approve of disabling 2.4ghz completely for example..... Our 
national document is being reviewed but currently states WPA-TKIP is 
required......HAHAHA. Don't think so.

Finally we and other insinuations have wireless installs in our hospitals, 
recently the hospitals have provided blanket wireless coverage and interference 
became a major issue. The hospitals agreed to offer eduroam SSID, and we are 
all pulling out our gear.  (so more similar to Ryan's experience). We started 
by disabling eduroam when they went live and now it's a working it's hardware 
removing time. In this case each of the 3 main Uni's here have a fibre into the 
hospital data centre and our users are routed directly to us giving us more 
control of their intranet access should we wish. 

A few discussions occurred about the varying technical solutions to all of 
above including the medical precinct and city wifi etc back in 2014. Things 
like SDN, Proxy Mobile IPv6 and routing for all users done centrally were 
thrown around but it all seemed a bit too early and we put it aside for now, 
I'm sure it's going to be back on the table in the near future. 

--
Jason Cook
Technology Services
The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005
Ph    : +61 8 8313 4800

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Curtis K. Larsen
Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2016 12:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam ssid

We're beginning to run into this problem as well.  Luckily, eduroam is not our 
primary SSID so at least the critical business functions continue to work fine 
on a separate SSID.  My guess is that we'll end up turning eduroam off at those 
remote locations if problems get reported.

In talking with the eduroam admin from the other institution they mentioned 
that when this occurs in Europe the solution has been to change the name of the 
SSID.  Is this really allowed?  If so, I'm sold!  Then we can start using our 
primary SSID with eduroam credentials!  This is what I always thought eduroam 
should have been.  To me the value was always in the universal credential
*NOT* the SSID name.  That was always a drawback for me especially as 
supplicants become easier to configure.

The other problem that we're going to run into soon is that we will be phasing 
out PEAP on our main SSID to mitigate against the evil twin vulnerability, but 
what do we do with eduroam?  I mean I guess you could say it is the remote 
institution's problem, or the user's problem if they connect to an evil twin on 
your campus because they're not validating the server.  But if the evil twin is 
on your campus it seems you have at least some responsibility in the matter.  
But as it stands, eduroam will leave a bit of a gaping security hole for us.

--
Curtis K. Larsen
Senior Network Engineer
University of Utah IT/CIS



On Fri, June 17, 2016 7:35 am, Turner, Ryan H wrote:
> Yes.  We have a satellite school at UNC Asheville.  Up until recently, UNC 
> Asheville was not
> running eduroam, and UNC Chapel Hill was the only occupant of a couple of 
> buildings on campus.
> UNC Asheville adopted eduroam and wanted to move into adjoining spaces.   So 
> we were going to have
>  the situation where UNC Chapel Hill folks might attach to the wrong 
> institution’s eduroam and
> vice versa.  We ended up bridging the two networks together through a single 
> link, and based on
> realm, UNC Asheville will terminate UNC Chapel Hill folks directly to our 
> network (through trunked
> vlans).  It is nice, because now anywhere on UNC Asheville campus, UNC Chapel 
> Hill folks have UNC
> Chapel Hill IP space.  Because it made sense, we actually turned off our 
> access points and allowed
> UNC Asheville to provide wireless in our areas (so we wouldn’t have competing 
> wireless).
>
>
> Ryan Turner
> Manager of Network Operations
> ITS Communication Technologies
> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> +1 919 445 0113 Office
> +1 919 274 7926 Mobile
>
>
>
> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Becker, Jason
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam ssid
>
> Has anyone ran into this situation…
>
> We are an eduroam participating school and have multiple buildings that are 
> either across the road
> or sometimes sidewalk that another University owns.  The other school is 
> wanting to join eduroam
> so my issue is when we are both broadcasting the same ssid in possibly the 
> same airspace.  I have
> a felling this is going to cause many problems as clients could bounce back 
> and forth between
> systems.
>
> If you had to deal with this I like to hear your thoughts on it.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jason Becker
> Network Systems Engineer
> Washington University in St. Louis
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> 314-935-5006
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