RE: 802.1x vs web-portal

[Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services)]

Why do you say there are portal issues with https? Other than certificate error 
messages, http  https redirects work fine with Aruba wireless. I know I had 
issues with https  portals a few years ago when I tried portals with Cisco 
LWAP APs.


Bruce Osborne
Network Engineer
IT Network Services
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-Original Message-
From: Arran Cudbard-Bell [mailto:a.cudba...@freeradius.org] 
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: 802.1x vs web-portal

On 19 Nov 2013, at 21:00, Ken LeCompte lecom...@oit.rutgers.edu wrote:

 One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more webpages 
 is resulting in more confused users not getting redirected to captive portal 
 login pages.

A workaround for some devices would be to to add a WISPr responder to the 
portal. It will work will all recent iOS and OSX devices, some Windows Phones, 
and Windows 8/8.1.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn408675.aspx

There is no perfect solution to portal redirection, but WISPr does seem a good 
way forward.

-Arran

Arran Cudbard-Bell a.cudba...@freeradius.org FreeRADIUS Development Team

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RE: 802.1x vs web-portal

[Lee H Badman]

Portal net is unencrypted, or encrypted?

-Lee Badman

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ashfield, Matt (NBCC)
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:29 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal

Just wondering what people's thoughts are here regarding using the Web Portal 
authentication vs 802.1x auth in your wifi networks. Obviously one big pro 
for 802.1x is dynamic vlan assignment based on the users's credentials, but 
certainly for web-portal the big pro is simplicity for the user.

We currently use ExpressConnect to configure student devices for our 802.1x 
wifi network using certbased authentication, and while it works great 90% of 
the time, we have 10% where it's tough to get the user on for a variety of 
reasons on student owned devices. Since we provide guest access via a portal 
authentication, we inevitably get the question as to why don't we do all wifi 
auth with that?

I know when I first started out, there were limitations with the # of users a 
portal auth system could support, but I don't think that's a major concern 
anymore (we are using Cisco 5508 controllers here).  Just wondering what the 
thoughts are on this list. Always good input.

Thanks



Matt
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