Nah, just like to understand the benefit before making changes. Trying to gage how many nomadic WLAN users are really roaming from school to school, as opposed to users connecting to it on their own campus. Seems like a fair exercise:)
Sent from an Etch-a-Sketch. Please excuse squiggly lines. On Nov 12, 2012, at 19:44, "Hanset, Philippe C" <phan...@utk.edu> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote: > >> Does anyone keep stats on how much your Eduroam efforts get used? Like, >> other than just being in the club, is it really providing benefits that an >> easy-to-use guest network wouldn't? Not being snarky, but genuinely >> wondering. >> > > How can you beat instant authentication with encryption over the air? > Even an open network doesn't give that! > I walk on a campus and my phone automatically switches from 3G to Wi-Fi for > Data, not hitting my less than adequate quotas > > You are the hardest man to convince Lee ;-) > > Philippe > > > >>> Our email addresses are first-l...@utc.edu unless there are conflicts, >>> in which case we use a middle initial or a suffix. >>> >>> Our official "UTCid" is a rather arbitrary string (3 letters, 3 numbers, >>> where that came from don't ask me, it was back in the "no-SSNs" conversion). >>> >>> The directory key / userID is in fact the UTCid, and is typically used >>> as a login for everything. It's also the Active Directory ID. >>> >>> And now the bonus... the AD domain is in fact utc.tennessee.edu (we're >>> a "branch" of the state's tennessee.edu domain), so there's already some >>> confusion as to using the tennessee.edu versus utc.edu. Even worse... >>> there are root forest entries for ut...@tennessee.edu as well as >>> @utc.tennessee.edu. And of course UTK started the whole eduroam thing, >>> and they're already taking tennessee.edu as local :( although they still >>> take utk.edu as well. >>> >>> So we more or less got stuck with ut...@utc.edu to avoid the >>> domain/realm confusion with the big orange one. >>> >>> I would advise you rig up your local .1X to authenticate with your >>> fully-qualified eduroam username, just so users can consistently login >>> with the same credentials (assuming you're not using eduroam for >>> production .1X). >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> On 11/12/2012 6:11 PM, Julian Y Koh wrote: >>>> So we're looking at an eduroam deployment here, and one question that has >>>> come up is one of credentials. Here at NU, we have 2 identifiers - the >>>> NetID and the alias. All of the directories and the like are keyed off of >>>> the NetID, which does not have to be the same as the alias. Top-level >>>> email addresses take the form <alias>@northwestern.edu. >>>> >>>> Under a basic default eduroam deployment, a user would use >>>> <netid>@northwestern.edu as his/her username to authenticate to the >>>> wireless network. This is not 100% ideal from an end user point of view, >>>> though, since that could potentially lead to some confusion since at least >>>> here, netid rarely is the same as alias. Obviously, at some schools, >>>> netid = alias, so this is a moot point, but have other schools encountered >>>> support/documentation issues because of this? >>>> >>>> As an alternative, has anyone looking into using a subdomain for the >>>> realm? i.e., <netid>@eduroam.northwestern.edu? >>>> >>>> I tried going through the FAQs and documentation at >>>> <http://www.eduroamus.org/>, and there is some mention of avoiding >>>> subdomains at <http://www.eduroamus.org/node/29>. >>>> >>>> Personally, I think with good enough documentation we should be able to do >>>> the standard <netid>@northwestern.edu without a lot of trouble, but we >>>> also need to do due diligence and explore these options. :) >>>> >>>> Thanks!! >>>> >>> >>> ********** >>> Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent >>> Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. >> >> ********** >> Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent >> Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. >> > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
