Hi Mark, do you guys not using Bluesocket now? and the reason? I know Perfigo and Bluesocket were competitors
before.
regards,
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David Wang
Networking Services,CCS
University of Guelph
519-824-4120 ext. 52046
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Mark McNeil wrote:
Hi Mat,
here at Fordham
we started our wireless with a few Symbol and then moved to a wider
coverage
with Enterasys AP's behind a Bluesocket unit. This challenged users for
a username and password. Apart from the remote access via dial-up to
the
network, this was the first time members had to authenticate while on
campus.
The Bluesocket was only used on the wireless network.
We later migrated to the
Alcatel/Airespace
units but did not use their client or network access scheme since we
were
planning on using the then new Perfigo product(now Cisco Clean Access).
So far it has worked well on both the wireless and wired network. We
provide
access to some of the dorms via cable modems. Having the AP's attached
to a cable modem which is then connected to the Perfigo has not posed a
significant problem. We had some issues relating to re- connections
to VLANS when the Perfigo boxes dropped but those have since been taken
care of.( I hope!). We do not use 802.1x but rather the perfigo client
on PC's and a web login on non Wintel machines.
Since there has been only one login
procedure we have not experienced any confusion from the user
community.
The Perfigo product is checking for OS and virus updates so the
community
has seen this as necessary addition.
Mark McNeil
Director Network Services
Fordham University
Hi All
We're looking into a campus-wide wireless solution using a commercial
product. Most of these products do all the necessary things, like
authentication/encryption schemes, guest access, rogue detection, rf
tuning
and channel selection, etc.. etc...
My question is, how well do they co-exist with the Network Access
System
(if
there is one) of your wired LAN? We are also investigating implementing
802.1x authentication on the wired side, and if we went with a
commercial
solution for that as well, I'm wondering how well they'd co-exist and
how
much they'd confuse the end-user.
Anyone have any tips/experience in this area?
Thanks
Matt
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