RE: 802.1x and password change policy...

2011-02-28 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Philippe, We do not use EAP-TLS, but we do have a trusted CA for our PKI. We use Verizon's OmniRoot SSL Server Certificate service. http://cybertrust.omniroot.com/ The CA is authorized to generate certs for our domain (lberty.edu) only and cannot have sub-CAs. I do not know if it would

RE: Wireless Printers/Wi-Fi Direct, couple of other devices

2011-02-18 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
They can request a wired drop. Bruce -Original Message- From: Matthew Gracie [mailto:grac...@canisius.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Wireless Printers/Wi-Fi Direct, couple of other devices On 02/17/2011 07:45 AM, Osborne, Bruce W wrote: One of the big

RE: Wireless Printers/Wi-Fi Direct, couple of other devices

2011-02-18 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W [bosbo...@liberty.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:45 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Printers/Wi-Fi Direct, couple of other devices One of the big savings

RE: Wireless Printers/Wi-Fi Direct, couple of other devices

2011-02-17 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
One of the big savings for wireless is to move areas to all wireless., minimizing the wired drops switches. We have a couple of office areas with wireless desktops and we have a couple of wireless printers. We do not support student wireless printers, though. We are also seeing large interest

RE: Android and WPA2?

2011-02-17 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
The Samsung Captivate may have been running Android 2.1 I had one for a short while. It seems to use the class subnet mask. Most network utilities show the correct mask, but the network stack uses an incorrect one. You need to use a program like Terminal or ConnectBot to get a command prompt on

RE: Link LDAP groups to Separate SSIDs for Authentication

2011-01-25 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
to this limitation/document ? Loc UCSF Medical Center From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 3:22 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Link LDAP groups to Separate SSIDs for Authentication

2011-01-24 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv Cc: Osborne, Bruce W Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Link LDAP groups to Separate SSIDs for Authentication While you are correct about the 1500 result limit, this shouldn't be an issue with wireless authentication as the radius server will only query

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Providing wireless on a tour bus

2010-12-14 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
At Liberty University, we are using some of Aruba's RAP-5WN Access points to provide Wi-Fi for scamming student IDs on our intramural athletic fields. The access point is battery powered and uses a 3G cellular data modem to tunnel back to one of our wireless controllers. We house this solution

RE: DAS; are your happy with the DAS installation?

2010-11-19 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:34 AM Subject: Re: DAS; are your happy with the DAS installation? On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:14 -0500, Osborne, Bruce W wrote: What are you talking about? Many different things use the TLA (tree letter acronym) DAS. Data Analysis System Dynamic Animation

RE: DAS; are your happy with the DAS installation?

2010-11-18 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
What are you talking about? Many different things use the TLA (tree letter acronym) DAS. Data Analysis System Dynamic Animation Systems Direct Attached Storage DAS Keyboard Denver Astronomical Society?? Please choose one :) From: Nicholas Urrea [mailto:urr...@uchastings.edu] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Android OS 2.2

2010-10-23 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Jay, Many Aruba customers have been watching this thread. Where id you disable ARP spoofing? Is Aruba planning a patch to allow these clienst, even with Prohibit ARP Spoofing enabled? Thanks, Bruce Osborne Liberty University From: McNealy, Justin S

RE: Active Directory and LDAP at the same time. Or... just LDAP with 802.1x.

2010-10-13 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Lee, Perhaps you could setup the LDAP server as an external database for ACS and let ACS provide the RADIUS needed for 802.1x. Bruce Osborne Liberty University From: Lee H Badman [mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Active Directory and LDAP at the

RE: PEAPv0 Config Best Practice and Certificate Root question/concern

2010-10-12 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Gareth, How do you handle multiple RADIUS servers for redundancy? We have our own CA trusted by GTE OmniRoot (http://cybertrust.omniroot.com/) so we just setup to trust them as the root CA. We will be deploying 802.1x, trust OmniRoot only, not prompt for other certificates. We have 2 RADIUS

RE: Android 2.2 disappointing on the secure WLAN- is it just us?

2010-09-30 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Very useful information, James. The most interesting quote from the second link is this: === The partial fix for getting Android 2.2 to connect to 802.1x secured network on Aruba Aps was to disable 'Wireless Multimedia U-APSD (WMM-UAPSD) Powersave' in the advanced properties of the SSID

RE: Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses

2010-09-26 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
Could these possibly be counterfeits from the OEM? Just a thought... From: Lee H Badman [lhbad...@syr.edu] Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Macbooks with odd Airport MAC addresses Wow- that's one to get a picture of!

RE: Help on remote sensor data capturing

2010-09-23 Thread Osborne, Bruce W
According to my research , zigbee (802.15.4) is a mesh topology restricted to 1mW maximum. It is meant for short ranges, but farther than Bluetooth. Our school is currently evaluating zigbee wireless thermostats for HVAC management. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer - Wireless NAC Liberty

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Vendors contacting list's participants...

2010-08-27 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
, 2010 11:23 AM To: Osborne, Bruce W. (NS); WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Vendors contacting list's participants... Bruce, I take the approach that if I see someone posting here about an issue with a vendor's equipment, and I have a vendor resource that may

RE: Campus WLAN Design Question

2010-08-27 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Anthony, Justin Hao mentioned secondary interfaces on the vlan. This sound much like Aruba's vlan pooling. With Aruba's solution, the client is assigned a vlan based on a hash of their mac address. They could then roam to any of your areas and keep their same ip address. Just another

RE: XBox 360 S

2010-08-23 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
, because the one printed on the wireless adapter is not used. Matt Barber Network and Systems Manager Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Sunday

RE: Band Steering?

2010-08-16 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Here is a response I received from Aruba Engineering: Bruce, I have heard this from some of my other customers as well. The basic issue comes down to the physical properties of the 5GHz wave vs. the 2.4GHz. The lower frequency (2.4) will be able to travel through air and walls and even bend

RE: Band Steering?

2010-08-16 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Here is an explanation from Aruba Engineering: Bruce, Both the 125 and the 105 have 2 spatial streams. The 2x2 vs 3x3 is the MIMO antenna configuration. #of transit antennas (Tx) by the # of receive (Rx) antennas. There is also a 3rd metric (the spatial stream) it is represented by 3x3x2 or

RE: Cisco Wireless Controller Software Advisory

2010-08-04 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
I am curious. What issue were you seeing with the 7925g phones? Thanks, Bruce Osborne Liberty University -Original Message- From: Mike King [mailto:m...@mpking.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:41 AM Subject: Re: Cisco Wireless Controller Software Advisory For all those playing at

RE: blocking broadcast/multicast?

2010-07-03 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 5:31 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] blocking broadcast/multicast? Marcelo, You need to be careful blocking broadcasts, or you may need to statically

RE: blocking broadcast/multicast?

2010-06-30 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Marcelo, You need to be careful blocking broadcasts, or you may need to statically set ip addresses on all your clients. DHCP uses broadcast. We are an Aruba shop. On our normal data SSIDs we set Drop Broadcast and Multicast and Convert Broadcast ARP requests to unicast On our high speed

RE: Mobile devices and NAC

2010-06-29 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
On Jun 26, 2010, at 3:09 AM, Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) wrote: Dennis, We moved from Cisco NAC to Bradford a couple of years ago. We set up our system based on MAC address authentication. The client only needs to register once per semester. Our main user complaint with Cisco NAC was the need

RE: Mobile devices and NAC

2010-06-29 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Dennis, I believe they use DHCP finngerprinting in addition to the user agent. Except for game consoles, the user does not enter the mac address into the web page. For game consoles, the server must have seen the mac address on the network. The mac address vendor mac prefix also must have been

RE: Mobile devices and NAC

2010-06-26 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Dennis, We moved from Cisco NAC to Bradford a couple of years ago. We set up our system based on MAC address authentication. The client only needs to register once per semester. Our main user complaint with Cisco NAC was the need to login to NAC every time the connected to the network. If

RE: 11n adapter for AD Desktops (not laptops)?

2010-05-19 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Lee, We here at Liberty University have found the Dell wireless kit here works best for us: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/VoIP_Telephony/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=ens=dhscs=19sku=430-2757 Bruce Osborne Network Engineer Liberty University From: Lee H Badman

RE: Aruba vs HP vs Meraki

2010-04-13 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Philippe, Actually that looks like it could be an explosive environment. The Aruba AP-85 is designed to function in explosive environments. Bruce Osborne Liberty University -Original Message- From: Philippe Hanset [mailto:phan...@utk.edu] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 3:57 PM Subject:

RE: Aruba vs HP vs Meraki

2010-04-03 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Although you may be tempted to skip some licensing, I find Aruba's Policy Enforcement Firewall indispensible for the features control you get as an administrator. Bruce Osborne Liberty University -Original Message- From: Patrick Goggins [mailto:pgogg...@carrollu.edu] Sent: Friday,

RE: Encryption and Authentication

2009-12-31 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
My understanding is that WEP TKIP are not allowed in the 802.11n standard. Only open or AES. Bruce Osborne Liberty University -Original Message- From: Cortes, Diana [mailto:dcor...@miami.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Encryption and Authentication If I

RE: 802.11n Solutions

2009-12-28 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Frank, We have running Aruba's centralized 802.11n solution here at Liberty University for the past year. Early on, there were some stability scalability issues, but they have been resolved. I know that this summer, during our testing for Video over wireless, we had 20 clients simultaneously

RE: 802.11n Solutions

2009-12-17 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Pablo, We here at Liberty University recently migrated to Aruba's 802.11n solution. I am sure that we have a larger, more complex deployment than you have, but Aruba has solutions for various sized deployments. Aruba's technical support is dedicated, thorough, and very customer focused. If a

RE: Stolen Wireless Device Tracking?

2009-12-09 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Liberty University has been primarily using Airwave too. If there is only one MAC address missing, Aruba ECS / Bradford Campus Manager cam alert too. Bruce Osborne Liberty University From: Justin Hao [mailto:j...@tamu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Stolen Wireless

RE: Upgrade to N

2009-12-04 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Bruce, We here at Liberty University have just finished moving our wireless ^ NAC. Our old system used Cisco 1231 802.11b/g autonomous APs, WLSE (attempted) Cisco Clean Access. We evaluated tested our options for more than a year. The major vendor offerings that we evaluated in depth were

RE: Cisco WISM - what do you think?

2009-11-12 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Mike, I am not sure what capabilities are available there. I will check and get back to you with an answer. Bruce From: Whitlow, Michael [mailto:mwhit...@bumail.bradley.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:14 PM To: Osborne, Bruce W. (NS); WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: RE

RE: Cisco WISM - what do you think?

2009-11-12 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Osborne Liberty University From: Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:39 PM To: Whitlow, Michael; WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Cc: Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Subject: RE: Cisco WISM - what do you think? Mike, I am not sure what capabilities are available there. I will check

RE: BW capping

2009-09-29 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Jason, We here at Liberty University were also looking for a scalable bandwidth management solution. We needed integration swith our Aruba ECS / Bradford Campus Manager NAC solution. We evaluated both the Allot NetEnforcer and the Procera PacketLogic solutions. The Allot solution was almost

RE: separating 'types' of users

2009-09-23 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Jamie, Here at Liberty University, currently separate Guest users to their own, bandwidth-limited SSID that is tunneled out to a DMA on our firewall. Our primary user SSIDs are 802.11a/b/g 2.4GHz. 802.11n. We also have a high speed 5GHz 802.11n SSID. We have eliminated the base rates below

RE: Large numbers of clients in one room

2009-08-12 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Unfortunately, at least here in the US, many consumer level laptops are using 802.11b/g/n wireless NICs. They still only have the 2,4GHz radio, so no 300Mbit speeds :( So, unfortunately the 2.4GHz 802.11b/g mess will be around for a while. We have a separate SSID for high speed users that is

RE: Single Channel vs Multi-Channel Architecture

2009-07-30 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Jason, I wholeheartedly agree. We here at Liberty University spent a year evaluating wireless NAC solutions. We chose to move from Cisco fat APs Clean Access to Aruba's wireless ECS NAC solutions. The real challenge is in dense environments. Meru's single channel becomes channel stacking

RE: Replacing Bluesocket with Cisco NAC (formerly known as Clean Access)

2009-07-26 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: zaterdag 25 juli 2009 11:49

RE: Replacing Bluesocket with Cisco NAC (formerly known as Clean Access)

2009-07-25 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Kevin, Unfortunately I must agree with Manoj. Liberty University has historically been a Cisco shop. We are completing our move away from CCA. CCA is primarily designed as a Layer-2 solution, although it may be deployed as a Layer-3 solution if VRF ( Virtual Routing Forwarding) and PBR

RE: Cisco Aironet without WEP and DHCP Problem

2009-06-05 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
If you are using 802.1q trunks, for the PA ports, the data vlan needs to be allowed on the trunk. Switchport port security may limit the number of connecting mac addresses. I do not think that spanning-tree bpduguard affects these APs Just a few more areas to check. Bruce Osborne Liberty

RE: Meru and Broadcast Suppression

2009-05-28 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
We here at Liberty University also use Aruba's VLAN pooling with /23 subnets. In our legacy fat AP system we used /20 subnets and performance was poor. Bruce Osborne Liberty University From: Brooks, Stan [mailto:stan.bro...@emory.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Meru and

RE: Wireless-only in residence halls

2009-04-26 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Matt, We are looking into selling dual band 11n adapters. Whish ones did you choose? What about desktop computers? Do you provide any solution for wireless? There do not seem to be any dual band 11n desktop cards. You can buy adapters and use some of the laptop cards, though. Thanks, Bruce

RE: Wireless-only in residence halls

2009-04-26 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
-6053 -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 5:55 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless-only

RE: Wireless-only in residence halls

2009-04-25 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Matt, Are you doing any IPTV? We currently use the VideoFurnace product. For us to move to wireless-only dorms, IPTV is a must. We are working with our vendor's advanced engineering team to have a partial solution working by this fall. There can be serious cost savings moving to

RE: Spectrum load balancing/Band steering

2009-04-23 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
We tried it here at Liberty University, but turned it off. We found that some clients that insisted on preferring 802.11g were flapping between 2.4 GHz 5 GHz. I think that was with ArubaOS 3.3.2.10. The current version is 3.3.2.13. What version are you guys using? All our APs are AP-125

RE: wish list for next generation vendor selection

2009-04-16 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
I would add the following: A built-in stateful firewall. Does the proposed solution interoperate with your existing NAC solution? QoS for VoIP streaming video. It is always a very good idea to talk with existing customers for the good, the bad the ugly. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer

RE: Wireless network names

2009-04-06 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
] Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:32 AM Subject: Re: Wireless network names Here, too - open Wi-Fi for the masses? Cringe It's 2009 now - time to lock it down. Frank From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce

RE: Wireless network names

2009-04-05 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
. Frank From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:35 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless network names Nathan, We here

RE: Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers

2009-03-17 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Manoj, We upgraded to 6.2.2 last week. The old data statistics were retained. There is a bug in the bandwidth graph, though. Airwave now has a separate patch for that problem. The bandwidth graph may report unusually high data. The patch corrected that problem. Bruce Osborne Network Engineer

RE: Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiplecontrollers

2009-03-16 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Lee, I understand from Airwave support that they expect to have improved Aruba management capabilities later this year. A multi-vendor management solution cannot be expected to manage all vendor platforms equally. The perform the easy things first and then add more capabilities. Bruce Osborne

RE: Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers

2009-03-06 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Lee, Liberty University also uses Airwave in monitor-only mode for our Aruba controllers. In the Aruba controller architecture, there is typically one master controller several local controllers. The master (This can be an HA pair) allows you to control most of the configuration from a

RE: Aerohive 340AP

2009-03-03 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:09 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aerohive 340AP Todd, I'm not sure why you would say that. We now have almost

RE: Aerohive 340AP

2009-03-01 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:09 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aerohive 340AP Todd, I'm not sure why you would say that. We now have almost 600 802.11n APs on 3 controllers that are managed centrally from the master

RE: Aerohive 340AP

2009-02-28 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
Todd, I'm not sure why you would say that. We now have almost 600 802.11n APs on 3 controllers that are managed centrally from the master controller. We can handle up to 500 APs per controller (2000 per chassis). This allows you to standardize configurations OS versions. We are supplementing

RE: Broadcast Flood

2009-02-20 Thread Osborne, Bruce W. (NS)
I believe the command is: wlan virtual-ap Liberty broadcast-filter arp Notice this is per virtual-ap Bruce Osborne Liberty University -Original Message- From: Jason Appah [mailto:jason.ap...@oit.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Broadcast Flood Does

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