RE: Cisco feature CSCvb99468

2018-02-16 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi Hector, Isn't 8.2.161 deferred? Best regards Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Hector J Rios Sent: 16 February 2018 15:04 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco feature CSCvb99468 Meet Cisco

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Amazon Fire Tablet Line - 802.1x Support Dropped?

2018-02-07 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi Joseph, Can you install your CA certificate, and actually get the device to verify it? Best Regards, -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph Bernard Sent: 07 February 2018 16:27 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Door Locks?

2017-11-06 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi Greg, We have Aperio in place in a few buildings (somewhere around a half dozen now), though it’s at higher density in residences. No issues with wifi coverage have been reported, and we have 802.11 n/ac(wave1) coverage where they are installed. Usefully, we have residential buildings that

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 3800 Series APs

2017-07-05 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi folks, My understanding is that a 3800 is a 2800 with a module slot, so the real decider is "Are you going to deploy any modules?". Happy, as ever, to be corrected. Best Regards, -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] TLS Onboarding Vendors

2016-11-01 Thread Ian McDonald
The three digits on the back of the card wouldn't go amiss. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: 01 November 2016 13:43 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] IoT Devices

2016-09-07 Thread Ian McDonald
Nor here. While manufacturers are still selling ‘smart’ phones with no 5G radio, it's going to be a long long time coming Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity / misspelling. From: Lee H Badman Sent: 07 September 2016 02:36 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Ian McDonald
, Ian McDonald <i...@st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:i...@st-andrews.ac.uk>> wrote: A pair of (cisco) access points from your scrap pile in bridge mode? 100% inexpensive ☺ -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mail

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] backhaul wifi comparison/suggestions

2016-04-05 Thread Ian McDonald
A pair of (cisco) access points from your scrap pile in bridge mode? 100% inexpensive ☺ -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John Rodkey Sent: 05 April 2016 22:36 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

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

2016-03-01 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi, We captive portal, and have the portal pull the mac out of the adjacency table on the router for the IP that the device spoke to the portal with (and then populate db etc.). -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and/or misspelling. From: Seward,

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] It's that time of year...

2015-12-02 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi Brandon, I'm pretty sure wideband noise from cheap and nasty electronics can cause havoc with most telecommunications. Whether fairy lights are any better or worse than anything else, I doubt it, though they are very cheaply produced, and unlikely to be very well designed. My Cisco 837

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Door Locks

2015-07-02 Thread Ian McDonald
Hi Folks, We have Assa Abloy Aperio wireless escutcheons on our ARX access control system (which also supports wired doors). http://www.assaabloy.co.uk/en/local/uk/Products/Access-control/Aperio/ They have a small transmitter (comhub) near each group of (up to 8 IIRC) locks. I understand

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] google play ACL

2015-05-29 Thread Ian McDonald
This is a major problem with android, and google don't seem interested in enterprise onboarding at all. I mean, how hard would it be to support some open variant of mobileconfig with their army of developers. -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and/or misspelling.

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Copper Cable Field Terminations for Access Points

2015-05-14 Thread Ian McDonald
+1 Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and/or misspelling. From: Oliver, Jeffmailto:jeff.oli...@uleth.ca Sent: ‎14/‎05/‎2015 18:22 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Copper Cable Field

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Copper Cable Field Terminations for Access Points

2015-05-14 Thread Ian McDonald
at Chattanooga From: Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.ukmailto:i...@st-andrews.ac.uk Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 1:25 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Above Ceiling AP installations vs. Prediction - Hospital Environment

2015-04-29 Thread Ian McDonald
As long as you don't put the AP right over a ceiling frame joint, we seem to do OK, again dependent on what else is up there. Best regards Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and/or misspelling. From: Harry Rauchmailto:rauc...@eckerd.edu Sent:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Looking for interest among Wi-Fi professionals

2015-03-18 Thread Ian McDonald
Can't see me using anything that I have to visit and look at rather than it being delivered to me like a listserv. There's just not the time in the day. Best Regards Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and/or misspelling. From: Lee H

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Annual Exercise in Frustration: Printers that do wireless 1x?

2015-02-12 Thread Ian McDonald
Why bother? If you can run a power outlet, you can run a catN also, and have guaranteed connectivity throughput.. My useless $0.02 -- Ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and/or misspelling. From: Lee H Badmanmailto:lhbad...@syr.edu Sent: ‎12/‎02/‎2015

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Annual Exercise in Frustration: Printers that do wireless 1x?

2015-02-12 Thread Ian McDonald
Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian McDonald Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:35 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Annual Exercise in Frustration: Printers that do wireless 1x? Why bother? If you can run a power

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Setting up iPads with Apple Configurator- process breaking on 802.1X WLAN

2015-02-12 Thread Ian McDonald
Care to share ? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: 12 February 2015 12:19 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Setting up iPads with Apple Configurator- process

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 8510 Controllers

2015-01-16 Thread Ian McDonald
It looks like they got dropped in transit. I've seen 1/2U's look like this before. I presume they work OK? -- Ian -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hunter Fuller Sent: 16 January

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN design presentation tips?

2014-10-22 Thread Ian McDonald
How about you get them to ignore the fact they can see each other and ramp the radios up some? Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Stewart, Joemailto:joe.stew...@claremontmckenna.edu Sent: ‎22/‎10/‎2014 18:21 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Yosemite and EAP-TTLS

2014-10-17 Thread Ian McDonald
Or write a nice little cgi that makes a mobileconfig, signs it etc and put it in your captive portal. Bonus points for putting it behind an authentication and embedding the user@realm string to prevent having to explain to the user what to type after the @ and why. Thanks -- ian Sent from my

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Yosemite and EAP-TTLS

2014-10-17 Thread Ian McDonald
: http://wirednot.wordpress.com) From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian McDonald Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 3:24 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Yosemite and EAP-TTLS

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Dorms

2014-10-16 Thread Ian McDonald
Breach of your written policy prohibiting such things isn’t a disciplinary matter? And can’t be fixed with your disciplinary system? From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of T. Shayne Ghere Sent: 16 October 2014 16:11

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Dorms

2014-10-16 Thread Ian McDonald
of these devices don't have much power behind the radio. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.ukmailto:i...@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote: Breach of your written policy prohibiting such things isn’t a disciplinary matter? And can’t be fixed with your disciplinary system? From

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless in Dorms

2014-10-16 Thread Ian McDonald
tethering, but from my experience, most of these devices don't have much power behind the radio. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.ukmailto:i...@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote: Breach of your written policy prohibiting such things isn’t a disciplinary matter? And can’t be fixed

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Give a little, get a little

2014-09-26 Thread Ian McDonald
Indeedy, I also felt that we ought to have a question 'How many dedicated wlan staff do you have?' Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Matthew Newtonmailto:m...@leicester.ac.uk Sent: ‎26/‎09/‎2014 21:56 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Macintosh not re-authenticating 802.1x

2014-08-13 Thread Ian McDonald
Are they running 10.latest.latest? Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Schwartz, Roger Jmailto:rschw...@uthsc.edu Sent: ‎13/‎08/‎2014 20:04 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Google/Apple/Microsoft High Ed user support group...

2014-07-14 Thread Ian McDonald
I'm sure there's plenty of people this side of the pond that would like to be involved too, which would lend it global weight. Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Lee H Badmanmailto:lhbad...@syr.edu Sent: ‎14/‎07/‎2014

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] educating users about getting onto .1X

2014-04-24 Thread Ian McDonald
Posters and instructions in the welcome pack. Mini helpdesks at strategic points during pre-sessional week etc.. Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Michael Dicksonmailto:mdick...@nic.umass.edu Sent: ‎24/‎04/‎2014

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] How many drops 802.11ac phase 2

2014-02-09 Thread Ian McDonald
Or, given that 1 .ac access point covers n square feet, decide that 1G is enough per n square feet, and quit the unnecessary 'arms race'. Design guides now are indicating an access point in every other room. Where is all this bandwidth meant to go? What devices are using it, and how? How does

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] How many drops 802.11ac phase 2

2014-02-09 Thread Ian McDonald
. From: Julian Y Kohmailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu Sent: ‎09/‎02/‎2014 16:56 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] How many drops 802.11ac phase 2 On Feb 9, 2014, at 02:29 , Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] OS X 802.1x auth issue

2014-01-23 Thread Ian McDonald
thinking of the intermediate certs mostly. Setting always trust on a client machine just makes me a little uncomfortable. - Don On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.ukmailto:i...@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote: I'd be more interested in a method for doing

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] OS X 802.1x auth issue

2014-01-23 Thread Ian McDonald
Ahh, autocorrect errors nearly always cause amusement. A recent advertisement offered 'special pubic sector discounts' Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Travis Schickmailto:trsch...@ucdavis.edu Sent:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] OS X 802.1x auth issue

2014-01-21 Thread Ian McDonald
I'd be more interested in a method for doing this in a .mobileconfig file, or for them to fix it in a manner that doesn't involve us having to mess about on the clients. -- ian -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Informal Report From a new eduroam Environment

2014-01-15 Thread Ian McDonald
It might well have resulted in one less call for us too. This is why we use eduroam as our primary said, stops people trying to set it up failing when they're already away. Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling. From: Hanset,

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11AC Future Infrastructure

2013-12-18 Thread Ian McDonald
6A isn't particularly more expensive in a new build / whole area refurbishment, and I figure the 'fit the best you can afford' route works for the best chance of it still being adequate in 20 years time. My predecessor who shared this view did us a huge favour by insisting on Cat 5 when Cat 3

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11AC Future Infrastructure

2013-12-18 Thread Ian McDonald
They certainly are using some strange math, my experience (and that of other institutions nearby) is that the vast majority of my N access points don't suffer from being connected to 100M poe switches, and in the places we have 1G to them, they generally don't use more than 100M. Thanks --

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi planning

2013-12-12 Thread Ian McDonald
It seems to me to be completely impractical from a planning and budgetary perspective to be increasing the density of AP's on an annual basis due to poor client design, whether low transmit power, antenna deficiency, or insufficiently well designed front-ends. If a device can't connect to the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows 8 and Broadcom wireless cards

2013-12-04 Thread Ian McDonald
Does the new driver in Win 8 do 802.11w? See the list archives for detail, google 'cisco 802.11w educause' should probably work. May or may not be your issue, but on my phone I can't really look properly at code versions etc. Thanks -- ian Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and

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

2013-11-20 Thread Ian McDonald
Isn't that really a client supplicant issue though? You can send back a reason for authfailure, and then the client could prompt for a replacement password. -- ian -Original Message- From: Fleming, Tony Sent: 20-11-2013, 14:22 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam rollout- one more time

2013-11-01 Thread Ian McDonald
We did #1, but we didn't have .1x before that. My understanding is that most places that did went for #3. Our biggest benefit of #1 is that eduroam just works for users who go away to other institutions, without them ever having to plan it, as it's already set up. -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco IOS Access points

2013-11-01 Thread Ian McDonald
What models are they? You probably need to change the default IOS to get a stable one. -- ian -Original Message- From: Mike King Sent: 01-11-2013, 19:26 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco IOS Access points I've been asked to set up two access points

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] For those of you on Cisco code 7.5, supporting Bonjour, etc...

2013-10-10 Thread Ian McDonald
Ahh, I'm sure multivendor solutions are great so long as Apple aren't involved in them anywhere, as servers or clients ;) -- ian -Original Message- From: Mark Duling Sent: 10-10-2013, 22:17 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] For those of you on Cisco code

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC dynamic channel assignment (DCA) interval

2013-10-08 Thread Ian McDonald
It's turning into a mid-late 1990's AOL fest .. -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Watters, John Sent: 08 October 2013 15:42 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WLC

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student devices

2013-05-03 Thread Ian McDonald
I know we're not .us, but we rolled out eduroam as our primary/only SSID so that our users were already set up for it whenever they went away to visit another institution, and didn't have to suffer whatever guest arrangements other places had. Not only that, it lifted some of the burden of

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Verifying or Validating Server Certificate when using WPA/WPA2 and 8021x WLAN

2013-04-17 Thread Ian McDonald
Don't you use a .mobileconfig file? -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of John McMillan Sent: 17 April 2013 14:54 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Verifying or Validating

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 802.11b speeds

2013-03-19 Thread Ian McDonald
I wasn't under the impression that a wii could connect to an enterprise wireless network? Am I wrong? -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Forsyth Sent: 19 March 2013 14:00 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Boosting cell phone signal in residence hall

2013-03-14 Thread Ian McDonald
Presume you could fit the modules in partnership with a provider? -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: 14 March 2013 15:37 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Residence Hall Wireless survey

2013-02-24 Thread Ian McDonald
start... Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 2/24/2013 1:27 PM, Ian McDonald wrote: I'm quite surprised that people

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] About the eduroam configuration on Freeradius

2013-02-15 Thread Ian McDonald
It's pretty common in Europe to only offer the eduroam ssid, and offer visitors 'different' connectivity than local users on it, (and have a captive portal containing all the setup etc on an open ssid). Making it so the wireless configuration is the same whether on campus or at another eduroam

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple attempting to fix their faux-paus

2012-11-16 Thread Ian McDonald
As long as whatever they come up works on networks where client separation is deployed. I see this as a massive opportunity to get something much more sane than anything I've seen before in this space. -- ian -Original Message- From: Lee H Badman Sent: 16/11/2012, 14:15 To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam question

2012-04-12 Thread Ian McDonald
No they don't. That's one of the beauties of Eduroam. :) -- ian -Original Message- From: Brian David Sent: 12/04/2012, 18:33 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Eduroam question Greeting all, We are looking into Eduroam again…I know other schools have done

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wifi interference with lecture hall speakers

2012-03-16 Thread Ian McDonald
It might be possible at the input side, but I doubt very much at the speaker end (unless they're powered speakers that are fed at line-level). -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jamie Savage Sent: 16

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco APs losing CAPWAP session

2012-02-01 Thread Ian McDonald
Stupid it may be as a question, but are your two (or more) DHCP servers handing out the same length leases? You may also need to tweak the DAI settings. I know we had to change the default thresholds when we first deployed it. -- Ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco APs losing CAPWAP session

2012-01-31 Thread Ian McDonald
Is that like rouge backhoes? (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/119781) -- ian From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike King Sent: 31 January 2012 14:26 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPad Syncing over Wireless

2010-05-13 Thread Ian McDonald
a great idea if you're trying to provide a service IMHO. -- ian Ian McDonald, ITS, University of St Andrews T: +441334462779 F: +441334462759 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: SC013532 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Dual SSIDs

2010-05-05 Thread Ian McDonald
of radios in a space, so you don't have interference issues. -- ian Ian McDonald, ITS, University of St Andrews T: +441334462779 F: +441334462759 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: SC013532 ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Projectors (again)

2009-04-08 Thread Ian McDonald
Lee H Badman wrote: Lee- this doesn’t answer your question, but Vista does a have a network projector utility on board- looks interesting. For what these projectors cost, I’m amazed at how lame they are on a real network. I'm not surprised in the slightest. Most AV gear is incredibly

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Seeking recommendation for wireless bridge product

2009-03-12 Thread Ian McDonald
heath.barnhart wrote: We did the same thing Lee did with the Cisco 1200s. Worked without incident for over a year. We have that too, with 1231's. They're in use, and have been for a while. Cisco's fibre backed power injectors have been quite useful for us, getting connectivity where we