We were using the Bluesocket unit but at the time it did not do the virus and OS update checks. Perfigo was the strongest player at the time so we migrated all student access onto the system.
I know Bluesocket has updated their product but I've not checked to see what those updates cover.
Mark McNei
Director of Network Services/CIMS
Fordham University
718-817-3763
| "David Wang @ UoG
CCS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11/29/05 11:48 AM
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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
| Matt Ashfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11/29/05 09:49 AM
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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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