Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-registered MAC device bypass- worth the headaches?

2016-03-01 Thread Dale W. Carder
things, I would recommend starting here (from 2007): https://collaboration.opengroup.org/jericho/commandments_v1.2.pdf Dale > On 3/1/16, 10:42 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > on behalf of Dale W. Carder" <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU on behalf of > d

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Self-registered MAC device bypass- worth the headaches?

2016-03-01 Thread Dale W. Carder
There are of course lots of vendors selling lots of products to solve lots of "problems". I will also echo everything that Jeff has said below. We read what our requirements were and the educause community at the time was quite active on this front, leading to the excellent summary on their

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 on wireless experiences?

2014-09-11 Thread Dale W. Carder
From: Frank Bulk frnk...@iname.commailto:frnk...@iname.com How do I find out what the limit on the ND table size is? for cat6k: show mls cef maximum-routes Also, you may want to tweak some other parameters, for example we set ipv6 verify unicast source reachable-via rx (ONLY on 2T, n7k,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] guest wireless

2014-09-10 Thread Dale W. Carder
Thus spake Mark Reboli (mreb...@misericordia.edu) on Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:40:33PM +: I am looking for information on what people do with guest wireless. Do you have open wireless on your campus? Do you have a password that everyone knows? Do you create special passwords for groups?

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] guest wireless

2014-09-10 Thread Dale W. Carder
the coffee shop across the street. ;-) Dale -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Dale W. Carder Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:58 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] RFC6598

2014-03-28 Thread Dale W. Carder
Thus spake Mike King (m...@mpking.com) on Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:09:42AM -0400: My interpretation of that RFC (Thanks hadn't seen that one before) is that it is essentially reserved for Server Providers (Carriers). This would exclude most of the users of this list from using it. Also, it

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest Network Access Policy

2014-01-16 Thread Dale W. Carder
Thus spake Alexander, David (alexa...@ohio.edu) on Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 04:55:41PM -0500: 1) Do you allow guests on your wireless network? yes a. If you allow guests, what steps do they need to take to gain access to the network (eg. sponsorship, MAC registration, open

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11AC Future Infrastructure

2013-12-18 Thread Dale W. Carder
We had thousands of those, wired for usoc on the wallplate side, a splitter to send 2 pairs to two station cables with usoc on one and 568b on the station end. We had this for our entire cat-3 plant, and some of the early cat-5 (non-e) terminated on 110 blocks. I don't miss that any more than

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

2013-12-02 Thread Dale W. Carder
On our captive portal we just run a cron job once a day to pull the latest OCSP IP addresses to be whitelisted, and never have had a problem with SSL. Dale Thus spake Hanset, Philippe C (phan...@utk.edu) on Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 06:58:24PM +: Many places have problems with OSCP... they

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Sickness for rf (802.11)

2013-09-03 Thread Dale W. Carder
Do they request the same from Starbucks/McDonalds/Grocery store/ etc.? Dale Thus spake Hurt,Trenton W. (trent.h...@louisville.edu) on Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:40:26PM +: So I had to turn off aps for a person on my campus for areas they where visiting due to rf sickness. They provided a

Wireless Research Position at the University of Wisconsin

2012-10-12 Thread Dale W. Carder
Hey Folks, I'd like to share this unique job opportunity to support wireless research in our Computer Science Dept. Please feel free to pass it along. http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_074882.html best, Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Sr. Network Engineer University of Wisconsin / WiscNet http

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] PacketFence

2012-04-12 Thread Dale W. Carder
The last time I looked at it (years and years ago), it used dns spoofing to capture/redirect clients? My first thought was that it would not work w/ dnssec, so I haven't looked at it since and would be curious if that changed. Dale Thus spake Johnson, Neil M (neil-john...@uiowa.edu) on Thu,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking Chatty protocols

2012-03-13 Thread Dale W. Carder
We filter mdns, slp, upnp, ssdp, etc. Many of these are ttl=1 multicasts that chew up cpu time on our routers. On the aruba system we have broadcast-filter arp and all configured since we have approx an ipv4 /18's worth of clients chattering away. Dale Thus spake Johnson, Neil M

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSIDs, devices and guests

2012-01-19 Thread Dale W. Carder
Hi Bob, On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Bob Williamson wrote: Management wants an SSID for guests which does not require a password. My corporate reaction is “that is crazy”. My secondary/new to academia reaction is “why not”. Welcome aboard! If the guests network is completely separated

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] selectively disabling wireless in classrooms

2011-09-23 Thread Dale W. Carder
/wireless/classroom-advice-for-faculty.aspx -- Dale W. Carder - Sr. Network Engineer University of Wisconsin / WiscNet http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] ATT WiFi

2011-07-21 Thread Dale W. Carder
For the price of tuition you'd think that would apply to the classroom too! ;-) Dale Thus spake Lee H Badman (lhbad...@syr.edu) on Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:20:47PM -0400: For the matter, for the price of tickets and beer, why not actually watch the game when you're at the stadium instead of

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wifi and spectrometers?

2011-02-22 Thread Dale W. Carder
Thus spake Daniel Eklund (daniel.ekl...@wayne.edu) on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:56:00AM -0500: We have ubiquitous Wifi coverage in both 2.4 and 5Ghz spectrum in all our science buildings and have had no complaints of interference with equipment. Ditto. And since the chemistry buildings in

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client tracking and privacy concerns

2010-05-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
Thus spake Lee H Badman (lhbad...@syr.edu) on Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:53:21AM -0400: So... regardless of whether you use WCS, AirWave or something else, if 802.1x clients come up by user name or ID in the system and can be located on floorplans, etc, is anyone hearing privacy concerns

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless DHCP lease time

2009-09-30 Thread Dale W. Carder
We have quite a few wireless networks set to 15 minutes with no adverse affects. Dale On Sep 30, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Ryan Holland wrote: Philippe, We saw improvement moving from 1 hour to 30 minutes with no foreseen adverse affects. We are testing a few subnets on 15 minute leases, as it

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT/PAT

2009-07-14 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Bentley, Douglas wrote: What is everyone doing around IP space? We are currently using public IP space (close to 5000). We were using Nat but that didn’t work because of all the identification and tracking issue. We are using Cisco as our wireless solution

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] wired/wireless business model question

2009-01-27 Thread Dale W. Carder
, but we'll take care of monitoring performing any maintenance - getting a lambda on our optical transport system, in which case we work on splitting the capital costs. Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin / WiscNet http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Detecting Stolen Laptops...

2008-12-09 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Hector J Rios wrote: We’ve never been successful in recovering a stolen laptop. So far the thieves have been smart enough not to ever bring those laptops back into our campus. I’m curious to know if any of you have come up with a way to automate the detection of

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows Wireless Clients- strange behavior after recent Windows Updates?

2008-11-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Nov 5, 2008, at 2:31 AM, Jeroen van Ingen wrote: But that's quite easy to solve: put all your AP's in a database and make scripted config changes using SNMP... we manage over 800 fat AP's that way, but the method would scale to thousands :-) This is basically what we're doing to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless authentication for guests/visitors - something along the lines of hotel gatekeeper?

2008-06-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Chuck Braden wrote: They generally bring their own resources which might have various peer-to-peer clients and the associated content. Welcome to the internet ;-) Theses customers are not required to 'register' or authenticate. You will want to double check

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless authentication for guests/visitors - something along the lines of hotel gatekeeper?

2008-06-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Scholz, Greg wrote: So...in your case, even if you can't or won't block carte blanche like this I suggest somehow setting up a ssid/vlan/security profile or whatever for these types of users and do not let them do anything except minimal connectivity to the web.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless authentication for guests/visitors - something along the lines of hotel gatekeeper?

2008-06-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Chuck Braden wrote: You will want to double check that how you authorize your users fits with your response to CALEA. I am at a loss to understand the relevance. We dont have this traffic routed through a digital phone exchange. Does CALEA specifically concern

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] many clients, one room

2008-04-25 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Apr 23, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Lee, Steven wrote: We also held a bake-off with the big 3 LWAPP vendors. The results showed that these solutions were no better and sometimes worse than what we could achieve with manual tinkering of our IOS AP's. snip We came to a decision that the cost of

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Using 4 channels rather then 3 for the 2.4ghz wifi

2008-02-21 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Urrea, Nick wrote: We have a large study room at UC Hastings which accommodates up to 150 students. On average I see about 80-100 users using the wifi in the room. To load balance the wifi in the room I have setup 4 APs. Right now we use the 3 non-overlapping

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] The Aesthetics of 11n?

2008-01-17 Thread Dale W. Carder
haven't worked on getting new box styles to facilitate 'n' AP's, since we're waiting on IEEE standardization and 2nd-gen products. Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin - Madison / WiscNet http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] The Aesthetics of 11n?

2008-01-17 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: I think what the vendors are offering now will work with the final standard with minimal or no compatibility issues. If it's anything like the pre-g crap that was on the market before that was standardized, then this is a fallacy. The hardware

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n

2008-01-11 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Lee H Badman wrote: Actually, we did get a verbal commitment to that very notion yesterday from one of the more visible 11n vendors, but would have to see if that would be put in writing if we ever did proceed down that road. For hardware or software

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n tied to 802.3at

2007-11-18 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: One thing to note is that 300Mbps as a symbol rate is only possible with 40MHz channels (versus the 20MHz standard width for 802.11a/b/ g) .. which in 2.4GHz takes you from 3 non-overlapping to 1 non- overlapping. In 5GHz you have at least 8

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] The strategic importance of 5GHz

2007-06-27 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jun 27, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Philippe Hanset wrote: Hopefully the 15 watts of 802.3af will suffice for b/g and n at 5Ghz on one AP! This is my worry, too. I guess we wait and see! Dale ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] The strategic importance of 5GHz

2007-06-26 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jun 25, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Enfield, Chuck wrote: We currently only have one UTP cable to an AP location. The alternative is one GigE drop with either local power or proprietary UTP based power (including possible pre-standard 802.3at). One thing we did for the last 3 years is to pull

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] The strategic importance of 802.11a

2007-06-18 Thread Dale W. Carder
I think Frank is spot-on. Wait for 'n', and don't bother with 'a' unless you need to. On Jun 18, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: From two sources of anecdotal evidence it appears that those educational institutions that have deployed 802.11a for a year or two are getting between 30 to

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Advantages of Controller-based Wireless

2007-06-18 Thread Dale W. Carder
(Catching up on email, sorry for the delayed post) On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Tom Zeller wrote: Different vendor products offer different extra gravy. But in general, I see CBW as providing only a few benefits. Ditto. From the demos I have witnessed, the controllers are in my mind VERY

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco vs. Meru article

2007-06-14 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Kevin Whitney wrote: Any thoughts or advice on implementing/selecting a wireless system for use in a High School environment ? Hi Kevin, In talking to IT staff from K-12's at our (WiscNet's) last conference, one interesting thing I found was that technology has

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Playing Well With Others

2007-04-26 Thread Dale W. Carder
Hey Steve, On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Steve Fletty wrote: Do any of you face issues with dealing with municipal wireless initiatives impinging on your air space? The University of Minnesota has a large footprint in in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The city of Minneapolis is deploying a mesh

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless guest access

2007-02-26 Thread Dale W. Carder
. It they need access for longer, there is a more formal affiliation procedure used (that can also optionally allow access to other systems). One nice thing I like about our system is that it can generate many id's at once which is crucial for conferences. Dale -- Dale W

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EOL of WiLAN controllers (a month or two after purchasing - what do you do?)

2007-02-19 Thread Dale W. Carder
, and then magicly in 6 months something takes that product's place. Only then is an EOL announced because there is something new to sell you as an upgrade path. Dale Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network Services University

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EOL of WiLAN controllers (a month or two after purchasing - what do you do?)

2007-02-19 Thread Dale W. Carder
no such thing as a bad timbit... - Original Message - From: Dale W. Carder To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] EOL of WiLAN controllers (a month or two after purchasing - what do you do?) Thus

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] using four channels instead of three

2007-01-02 Thread Dale W. Carder
. Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin at Madison http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Linksys APs as enterprise solution

2006-09-11 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Philippe Hanset wrote: It has been mentioned that devices with less potent CPUs have a harder time to deal with big broadcast traffic. (our Cisco SE likes to remind me about that. Is it to sell a LWAPP system, or is it a fact?) Um, I seem to recall huge subnets on

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Usage Report

2006-08-03 Thread Dale W. Carder
-- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin at Madison http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] portal authentication?

2006-05-09 Thread Dale W. Carder
here: http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder/captivator/ It does not have an integrated guest access feature (we add guests via ldap), but anyone with a moderate level of perl clue could easily put that in. Dale Dale W. Carder

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi Client Tracking software/hardware

2006-04-10 Thread Dale W. Carder
Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin at Madison http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access

2006-03-31 Thread Dale W. Carder
of these user groups. I challenge peer public intitutions to stop this practice. Dale Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network Services University of Wisconsin at Madison | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (608) 263-3628 | 24hr NOC

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Theories on a massive problem on our WLAN?

2006-03-13 Thread Dale W. Carder
exactly expect this to get fixed either since Cisco is basicly throwing away everything and trying again with the company they bought to replace aironet. IMHO, of course. Dale Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Paint that attenuates Radio Signals

2006-02-15 Thread Dale W. Carder
. -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin at Madison http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Self-Healing- does it work?

2005-12-06 Thread Dale W. Carder
, as it lets the others take the risks in a fast moving market). Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin at Madison http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Self-Healing- does it work?

2005-12-06 Thread Dale W. Carder
, crypto, fast roaming, client side supplicants, scalability and resiliency of controllers, integration with cell phones, etc., all needs to come a long way. Dale -- Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer University of Wisconsin at Madison http://net.doit.wisc.edu

PC's bridging wired to wireless

2005-10-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
? And besides user education, etc, what can you do in the network to protect from this? Dale Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network Services University of Wisconsin at Madison | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (608) 263-3628 | 24hr

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dectecting ad-hoc networks in dorms

2005-10-05 Thread Dale W. Carder
Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network Services University of Wisconsin at Madison | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (608) 263-3628 | 24hr NOC: 263-4188 | http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Open Access- not sponsored guest access

2005-06-03 Thread Dale W. Carder
. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network Services University of Wisconsin at Madison | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (608) 263-3628 | 24hr NOC: 263-4188 | http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT