Portal net is unencrypted, or encrypted? -Lee Badman
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ashfield, Matt (NBCC) Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:29 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x vs web-portal Just wondering what people's thoughts are here regarding using the Web Portal authentication vs 802.1x auth in your wifi networks. Obviously one big "pro" for 802.1x is dynamic vlan assignment based on the users's credentials, but certainly for web-portal the big "pro" is simplicity for the user. We currently use ExpressConnect to configure student devices for our 802.1x wifi network using certbased authentication, and while it works great 90% of the time, we have 10% where it's tough to get the user on for a variety of reasons on student owned devices. Since we provide guest access via a portal authentication, we inevitably get the question as to why don't we do all wifi auth with that? I know when I first started out, there were limitations with the # of users a portal auth system could support, but I don't think that's a major concern anymore (we are using Cisco 5508 controllers here). Just wondering what the thoughts are on this list. Always good input. Thanks Matt ********** 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/.
