Here at Purdue the official wireless network supported campus wide is 'closed'.
We have about 1800 AP's around campus. Connecting to one, it does broadcast
the SSID, but once connected you only can go to our wireless information web
site. So to go further you must run a VPN connection to our VPN server which
you must authenticate with your Purdue career account. All staff, faculty, and
students have a career account. For 'visitors' to Purdue we have available
special event accounts to allow non Purdue people access to the networks.
Tim.
Timothy Lange
Manager/Lab Support
Teaching and Learning Technologies
Purdue University
Information Technology at Purdue, Room 516
Young Hall
302 Wood Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108
Phone: 765-496-8260
Fax: 765-494-0566
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lee Badman wrote:
Hello to this group. I'm looking for updated information on what (and
if) schools are doing for "open" wireless network access. It's easy to
trip over the words "guest" and "open" so I'll define the terms for this
question:
-guest- someone who has been sponsored in some way by an authorized
computing account holder affiliated with your college or University
-open- anyone, period. Think of it as hotsot access, no affiliation
with your school or college needed.
With that out of the way, here's the questions about open access:
- Do you allow open wireless access to the local community or anyone
else? What is your strategy for this?
- If you do allow open access, have you had problems?
- If you haven't had problems, do you fear problems like malicious
activity originating from your network that can't be tracked to a user?
- If you allow open access, were your risk management/legal types
consulted?
Guest access-
- How do you "sponsor" visiting guest?
- Any self-service mechanisms for staff and faculty to quickly get a
visitor on the wireless network without having to contact someone in
IT?
- Any guest access horror stories?
Thanks for your time- it's a great group. Please, no sales calls in
response to this posting.
Lee H. Badman
Network Engineer
CWSP, CWNA (CWNP011288)
Computing and Media Services (NSS)
250 Machinery Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
(315) 443-3003 Voice
(315) 443-1621 Fax
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