Brian, I get how tV’s, games, and roku’s work, but how does a printer work with this? I thought printers provided their own ssid – as opposed to connecting to one?
Tim *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mark Usher *Sent:* Thursday, September 01, 2016 11:38 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Res hall wireless printing.. Brian - We just implemented Aruba Clearpass with Airgroups and are allowing students to self white-list their misc devices including printers, on our less secure (open...) SSID. With Aruba/Clearpass/Airgroups/PEF, you basically just squash all of the broadcast and Airgroups/Clearpass forwards the broadcast requests (unicast) the the student's shared devices so only she/he 'sees' their devices. There's no security here, but kind of nice. So far it's made our life much easier. The biggest problem with these devices in my book is all of the extra RF interference out in the dorms. On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Brian Helman <[email protected]> wrote: Can you tell it’s the start of the new academic year?... I know we talk about this every year, but here we go again. How are people tackling/addressing students who want to use their wireless printers in their dorm rooms? In the past, we’ve told them they have to disable the wireless and use a USB from their laptop. That’s not flying as well as more and more people are more and more dependent on tablets, phablets and phones. We haven’t thought it through, but one option is to set up a separate, non-Internet accessible SSID for printers. We’d have to think though if it should hit the NAC, be somehow otherwise registered, do we care about security, contain those SSID’s to buildings (and not pass that traffic between buildings) etc, etc. -Brian ____________________________________ *Brian Helman, M.Ed *|* Director, ITS/Networking Services | *(: *978.542.7272 <978.542.7272>* *Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970* *GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779* ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- *Mark Usher* Director of Infrastructure and Security Information Technology | 102 Patterson Hall Ashland, Ohio 44843 419.289.5882 <4192895882> [email protected] ********** 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/.
