If you remove your open SSID, how is a client supposed to get provisioned for your 802.1X wireless network?
Bruce Osborne Network Engineer IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 Liberty University | Training Champions for Christ since 1971 -----Original Message----- From: Green, William C [mailto:gr...@austin.utexas.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Non-802.1x devices on wireless... We are removing our open SSID for sponsored guests (and students/faculty/staff non-802.1x supporting devices) Friday. It will be interesting to see what problems are generated. We have had three SSIDs: 802.1x, open for sponsored guests (mostly), and an open commercial provider. Sponsored guest may use 802.1x or open. Unsponsored guests use the commercial provider. Students/faculty/staff are supposed to use 802.1x, and mostly do (the open SSID's web-redirect had login timeouts that were bothersome from a user perspective). This spring the open sponsored guests network only had 0.47% of the client load -- most of those guests and not university. One goal has been to get the loosely affiliated guests onto the commercial provider and off the university's networks. So we end up with 802.1x, open commercial provider, and an open help/landing directing to one of the other two and offering configuration assistance. -- William C. Green e-mail: gr...@austin.utexas.edu Director, Networking and Telecommunications phone: +1 512-475-9295 ITS (Information Technology Services) fax: +1 512-471-2449 University of Texas 1 University Station Stop C3800 Austin, TX 78712 ********** 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/.
