Sorry, little bit out of topic, and thanks Mark.
In your former email, mentioned having Airspace APs for wireless. We
had asked Cisco about the network design for Clean Access (NAC
appliance) integrate with Airspace controllers or 6500 WiSM controller
blade cluster (at least 2 blades or controllers for redundancy), but
not got clear answer. Do you have some ideas?
or someone has some clue? thanks.
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David Wang
Networking Services,CCS
University of Guelph
519-824-4120 ext. 52046
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Mark McNeil wrote:
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
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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