We have had eduroam running for a few years now and haven't really had
too many major hickups with it specifically. The most common problem is
really configuring devices for dot1x, they are all different and some
can be quite painful. We have trialled Xpress connect and plan to get
funding next year, I wish we had trialled it a few years ago. This was
more to do with dot1x in general than eduroam itself however.
The other couple of things
Support- Initially our helpdesk would not support visitors trying to use
eduroam. This created a bit of difficulty when visitors were having
problems with their clients. I would recommend considering support in
your plan.
SSID overlap - You must use eduroam SSID, of course if you border on
another institution that also runs eduroam you can have some
unpleasantness for clients getting good signal from both. Hasn't been a
huge problem for neighbouring buildings, but at one point we had a
shared building and it was certainly a problem.
We had considered using only eduroam as an SSID however, with bordering
institutions we decided against it. So we run 2 SSID's like most. They
are configured the same, and use roll base vlans. So an eduroam user can
use our UofA while our users can use eduroam on campus with the same
service provided.
On 30/07/2011 4:42 AM, Wright, Donald wrote:
We have a mandate to setup Eduroam for our campus for the upcoming
fall semester and I was wondering how others have done this in the
past. Did you use a separate ssid made available throughout your
campus ? Any issues or gotchas that I should be aware of as far
initial response time for users, credential caching and roaming, etc ?
Thanks in advance.
Don Wright
Senior Network Engineer
CIS - Network Technologies Group
Brown University
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