Yes it does work. That's the problem - PEAP is vulnerable to Evil Twin attacks so we are disabling PEAP. Doing that on eduroam would break all institutions that still offer it. Leaving it enabled exposes users at our institution.
-Curtis ________________________________________ From: Johnson, Neil M [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 2:52 PM To: Curtis K. Larsen Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] eduroam ssid eduroam should work with just about any authentication method that uses EAP (PEAP,TLS,TTLS) etc. So if your are say moving to TLS (Client certificates) it should still just work. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer The University of Iowa Phone: 319 384-0938 Fax: 319 335-2951 E-Mail: [email protected] > On Jun 17, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Curtis K. Larsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 >> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE >> Constituent Group >> discussion list can be found at >> http://www.educause.edu/groups/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.educause.edu%2fgroups%2f&data=01%7c01%7crhturner%40email.unc.edu%7ccb70500b292d4427293208d39661db4b%7c58b3d54f16c942d3af081fcabd095666%7c1&sdata=qGNRUEHsNMv7sMBIsc4xSekkNTdOESCI%2fPCz87RzRZY%3d>. >> >> ********** >> 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/.
