-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nathan,
Nathan Hay wrote: > Has anyone built a dedicated computer/device that you deploy on the > network for the purpose of verifying that your SSIDs are working? We're just building something like this up right now as it happens, currently using a small Dell computer, Linux, scripts and cron jobs. > We have multiple wireless controllers and when an SSID has problems for > whatever reason we often don't hear about it until the phone starts > ringing. We're also going to have it feed into our Nagios/Opsview system to refresh results on DHCP/DNS/etc service checks for the wireless networks. > I'd also like to use these devices for remote wireless packet capture > when support wants us to capture whatever is going over the air. For this we have so far just used RSPAN from ports on Cisco switches placed into the correct Vlan. I might have more to report back in a while, after the thing's up and running. regards, - -- Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group, Oxford University Computing Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrWJKIACgkQ2NPq7pwWBt5C+ACgmXTi/NaUDKoKyeHDsaSJtWDA KE0An1JEvvfB67TieveGJNzb1vjr4gKg =ZQD8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
