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May 1, 2013 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from jtodd@westernu.edu

Bruce,

Are the clients matching different policies on the ACS server depending on what wireless system they are connected to? If so each policy may be using a different certificate and freaking out the Apple clients when they cross systems.

Jason

Jason Todd

Network Security Officer

Western University of Health Sciences

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Question about the signal strength of cisco Aironet 3602E on 5GHz

April 30, 2013 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from jarhelz@umich.edu

Hi. Are you using RRM to manage the radios? If so what is the reported power output RRM is setting? If you manually set power to max do you get a performance increase? We have both 3602i and 3602e series with dipoles you mention with no issues. We are running 7.2 code currently but plan to goto 7.5 later this summer.

-Jimmy

University of Michigan

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Distributed WiFi model - Thin vs Thick debate revisited

April 29, 2013 | Jacob Barros

Hello all. We are seriously considering replacing our Aruba infrastructure in favor of a distributed model. We are having controller issues this academic year and the appeal of a controller-less model is strong.

It feels like I am coming full circle to where I was six years ago. Though I know its not exactly the same, I went back to the thin vs thick debates in the archives. A few things stood out to me as considerations: One concern was vendor longevity. Another was whether or not the thick AP model would be able to keep up with the controller based architecture. An advantage of the controller based architecture that stood out to me was central processing, specifically regarding key exchange.

Are these points still valid concerns? If your administration asked you to consider a distributed architecture, what other (vendor-neutral) concerns would you have...

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Cisco WiSM2 7.4 stability issues?

April 24, 2013 | Joseph Roth

Has anyone else seen stability issues with 7.4? We had to downgrade from 7.4 to 7.3 due to our 1142 APs crashing. We had the patched engineering release that was supposed to fix this, but apparently there were multiple 1142 issues. The bug that we were hitting has yet to be patched.

Our hopes in going to 7.4 was to use a single HA only controller in a "pool" with our production controllers. Apparently this feature was implemented in 7.4. Has anyone been able to use this? We did not get to test it due to the downgrade.

Thanks.

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Binghamton University
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iPhone 5 wireless issues

April 22, 2013 | Thomas Carter

We have a mix of different APs – 422s, 522s, 82s, and 532s. We’re running MSS 8.0.1 (which has issues with the 82s, but that’s another issue). I haven’t opened a case with Juniper yet, as I’m still gathering the information about the problem.

We’re using PacketFence (which wraps FreeRADUS).

Thomas Carter

Network and Operations Manager

Austin College

903-813-2564

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Radiator versus Freeradius

April 19, 2013 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from neil-johnson@uiowa.edu

We have found RADIATOR to be very flexible and configurable. We are using it to implement our own version of "vlan pooling" since Meru doesn't have that feature.

One caution, we run RADIATOR on windows servers (because we do AD authentication) and there is the potential for you to have performance issues. Radiator has many features that can be used to get around those (We run multiple instances of it on one box and use the EAPBALANCE feature to load balance), but it takes some care and planning.

-Neil

Neil Johnson

Network Engineer

The University of Iowa

Phone: 319 384-0938

Fax: 319 335-2951

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Verifying or Validating Server Certificate when using WPA/WPA2 and 8021x WLAN

April 15, 2013 | Michael M. Williams

Our wireless network consists of a two Cisco wireless controller, 240 APs and we use Cisco ACS 5.2 as our RADIUS server. One of our wireless networks is configured to use WPA/WPA2 with 802.1x and PEAP w/ MSCHAP v2. After updating the server certificate on the ACS, our wireless users were asked to verify or validate the server certificate before gaining access to the wireless network. This requirement generates numerous helpdesk tickets and many more questions as to why the users must do this, when they don’t have to do it on any other wireless network. I have asked Cisco for assistance but they informed me that what we are seeing is the normal behavior for the wireless supplicants and that the user must manually verify the authentication server certificate when a wireless profile is created for the first time or after the server certificate is changed on the ACS.

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HP and BonJour Part II

April 5, 2013 | Christina Klam

All, The "Engine Communication Error" for the HP printers re-appeared on Monday. HP customer support basically says this is a network issue and thus we cannot help you. According to the printer's "Wireless Network Test Report," the printer sees more than one AP with the same SSID which "may cause network issues." But, this is not really a problem, it is by design. Any ideas? For testing, I have one of the printers wired to the same VLAN as the wireless users. I am trying to determine if it is a wireless problem or a density issue on the Bonjour domain. If it is wireless issue, wiring all the printers will not be a fix as some of the printers are in areas without jacks. Does anyone know of an Enterprise level printer with AirPrint? On a related note, is there a way to control BonJour domains? While I could use VLANs to reduce the number of BonJour devices in a domain, I am concerned that this will inhibit mobility. For example, if I create a VLAN per building or building...

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On-campus movie streaming portal

April 2, 2013 | Donald A. Sullivan

I was wondering if anyone was doing an on-campus streaming portal and how it impacted the wireless network. Right now we are doing 100MB out to the APs and I am concerned that if the university decided to offer this service we would need to upgrade to 1GB to the APs. I was wondering what the experience has been for someone who has already implemented something like this (we are looking at Resident Select).

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Don Sullivan

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eduroam and machine authentication

April 2, 2013 | Philippe Hanset

Neil,

If you want to do machine authentication for local access, the SSID is yours, so treat it like you would treat

any other SSID on campus.

For machine authentication, I know that University of Tennessee used a lot of AD Group Policies to accomplish Machine Authentication,

while maintaining user authentication at the same time (the machine can jojn the network to talk to AD on its own but each user has to authenticate independently

to access the functionality of the machine).

As Anders mentioned, if you give access to those machines with a REALM, empowering them to travel to other eduroam locations, make sure that someone is responsible for their usage.

Best,

Philippe

www.eduroam.us

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Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience?

April 1, 2013 | Keith Noah

Same here.
We are looking into installing one or two of these now, but we have no experience with this yet.

Keith Noah
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Network Operations Center
Cell:414-810-6789
Office:414-229-4972

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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ubiquiti Air Fiber- any first hand experience?

Hi All,

Has anyone actually installed a Ubiquiti AirFiber bridge link? Looking for first-hand testimonial before I put one in service?

Thanks-

Lee Badman

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High density wireless networks for higher education

April 1, 2013 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from david.rutledge@uky.edu

I was reviewing a presentation on high density deployments from Sept of last year and thought everyone might like to have it. It is playable via Cisco WebEx. It was a Cisco sponsored event and Cisco equipment used, but there is good info from engineers out in the field rather than just a sales pitch.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5282297/High%20Density%20Wireless%20Networks%20for%20Higher%20Education-20120927%201501-1.arf

David Rutledge

Network Engineer

University of Kentucky

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Wireless will never be the same

April 1, 2013 | Lee Badman

http://wirednot.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/etherbrillianc/

Innovation prevails.

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Nook HD reboot

March 27, 2013 | Trent Hurt

Has anyone seen any issues with a Nook HD connecting to a WPA2-enterprise ssid? Specifically it will let me put in username and password but as soon as I click connect it starts a reboot cycle on the device. The Nook HD can connect to an open ssid as well as a PSK. I can get other models of Nook (Color) on the same ssid no problem. I have seen this same issue on 3 Nook HD’s on my campus.

Model # BNTV400

Software version: 2.0.6

Thanks

Trent

Trenton Hurt, CWNA, CWSP, CCNP(W), CCNA(W), CCNA(V), CCNA(R/S)

Wireless Network Administrator

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Wireless Printers Brought into Residence Halls

March 26, 2013 | Thomas Carter

We have the same issue, especially with HP printers as previously noted. It is a time wasting process to hunt them down and shut down the wireless. Our issue is students not even realizing that their printer has wireless or is interfering with the wireless signal. All the communication in the world won’t help if students don’t realize their printer is impacting the signal for others.

I suspect a number of us are hoping someone has a better solution.

Thomas Carter

Network and Operations Manager

Austin College

903-813-2564

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Rogue device / client device location

March 20, 2013 | Thomas Carter

I would like to improve our ability to accurately locate rogue wireless access points or clients. With non-directional methods, we can narrow it down to a general area; for example, maybe one of 4 rooms in a residential hall. However I would like to be able to narrow it down with much more certainty.

What methods are others using for this? The Fluke AirCheck with directional antenna seems to do the job well, but with the usual Fluke price tag. Is anyone using anything cheaper or homegrown? Any experience with USB adapters with directional antennas?

Thanks,

Thomas Carter

Network and Operations Manager

Austin College

903-813-2564

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Boosting cell phone signal in residence hall

March 20, 2013 | Daniel Eklund

T-Mobile doesn't need it because they can already handle calls over WiFi

Daniel Eklund

Network Planning Manager

ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers

University of Michigan

734.763.6389

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locating stolen laptop - wireless campus network

March 14, 2013 | Alexandra Frincu

Hello,

In a wireless campus network, it happens that stolen devices reappear.

This subject has been already addressed on Educause in 2008:

http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0812&L=WIRELESS-LAN&T=0&F=&S=&P=37407

and in 2010:

http://seclists.org/educause/2010/q3/176

I am wondering if progress was made on this topic in the last years.

In particular...

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Wireless Vendor Recommendations?

March 12, 2013 | James Andrewartha

Hi Joshua, We use Enterasys wireless and switches, as well as their NAC product and Netsight management system (which does switches as well). We have 100 APs currently, which will rise to 150 when the new 3710 AP comes out (April I'm currently told). Right now we have just under 1000 clients associated

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Questions about WCS error

March 5, 2013 | Donald A. Sullivan

Concerning this error - " The AP '??' received a WPA MIC error on protocol '0' from Station '68:a8:6d:3c:63:dc'. Counter measures have been activated and traffic has been suspended for 60 seconds." - Whats the general take about disabling the Client Exclusion feature in WCS? I do not have TKIP enabled on our WLANs and my reading on this feature seems to indicate it has to do with TKIP. Thanks for the feedback Don Sullivan Network Administrator | Office: 205.726.2111 | email: dsullivan@samford.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

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You knew it was coming...Airplay/Apple TV support for instructors.

December 16, 2011 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from neil-johnson@uiowa.edu

We have a request to support Airplay/Apple TV's on our enterprise network so that instructors can mirror presentations from their iPad's to classroom and meeting room projectors. For performance reasons, we suppress multicast on our wireless networks and to conserve IP address space we dynamically assign users to wireless subnets so that two devices in a room may be on different IP subnets. So for right now it's not possible on our network. Of course the next question we get asked is if instructors can bring in their own "temporary" access points to do this. I'm wondering what other institutions responses are to request like these? Do you have an official policy? Thanks. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer The University of Iowa Phone: 319 384-0938 Fax: 319 335-2951 Mobile: 319 540-2081 E-Mail: neil-johnson@uiowa.edu ********** Participation and subscription information...

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Very high number of wireless devices returning from break

January 26, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from donald_wright@brown.edu

All,

It seems an alarmingly high number of wireless devices have returned to our campus this week. After at least of year of steadily increasing numbers, we are now seeing a roughly 40% increase since last December. At first I didn't believe what I was seeing and opened a case with the vendor to confirm reporting was accurate. Tied into this, we upgraded by a major version earlier this month and I thought this could be related. Apparently not the case, everything we've looked at tells us that the numbers are accurate. I'm still looking a stats, but haven't been able to come up with anything yet.

Is anyone else seeing this magnitude of increase in devices over winter break ?

Don Wright

Brown University

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Disabling 802.11b speeds

September 27, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from tmh9@msstate.edu

This has been discussed in the past, but it has been a long time. We're at the point that we have to turn off the lower connection rates on our campus. I'm curious what other schools have done and the positive/negative results from the changes. We have disabled 1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps in some of our buildings with great success, but some might argue to just eliminate 1 & 2 Mbps rates. Also, I'd be interested to hear from schools that have not disabled these rates and why not. -- Todd M. Hall Sr. Network Analyst Information Technology Services Mississippi State University tmh9@msstate.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

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Apple Petition

July 6, 2012 | William C. Green

Today it is AppleTV, tomorrow it will be a different device/use/software. The underlying issue, as others have noted, is the Bonjour resource discovery mechanism, what Apple likely needs is a directory service. Once that is solved, the problem will then shift to authentication/authorization/accounting and scalability. I'd suggest:

That Apple create non-Bonjour/non-multicast discovery mechanisms that scale in large enterprise environments.

That Apple integrate their offerings with enterprise AAA services.

-William

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You knew it was coming...Airplay/Apple TV support for instructors.)

July 5, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from neil-johnson@uiowa.edu

I'm a little fuzzy on the specifics things to request from Apple, but here is a first pass):

Whereas, we the undersigned academic and research institutions are receiving numerous requests from our faculty, staff, and students for the ability to utilize Airplay technology in classrooms, conference rooms, and other locations, hereby solemnly request that Apple provide support for Airplay technology in enterprise wireless networks.

Specifically, we request the following (in order of priority):

That Apple establish a way for the Apple TV (and other Airplay enabled devices) to be discoverable across multiple IPv4 and IPv6 subnets or lacking that:
That Apple establish a way for the Apple TV (and other Airplay enabled...

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eduroam question(s)

November 12, 2012 | Julian Y. Koh

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 @northwestern.edu. Under a basic default eduroam deployment, a user would use @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., @eduroam.northwestern.edu? I tried going through the FAQs and documentation at , and there is some mention...

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Wireless only dorms, advice?

January 18, 2012 | Sara Laird

Hello,

I am looking for anyone who has moved to wireless only dorms. We have fast track dorm construction project that is starting and our CIO would like to make it wireless only. I am wondering if anyone has done this and if so what kind of advice or comments can you share. We will be using Cisco waps. Also I am wondering what kind of ratio you based your access points on, how many devises per person.

Best Regards,

Sara

Sara M. Laird

Network Administrator

Mount Saint Mary's University

301.447.5014

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Cisco APs losing CAPWAP session

January 31, 2012 | Dan Brisson

I'm curious if any Cisco users out there are experiencing or have experienced what we're seeing on our campus. This past summer we installed 3502i's in all of our residence halls - approximately 500 total. Ever since the students have moved in, we will get messages from WCS stating that "AP XYZ" is down and disassociated from the controller. When I check out the AP, the uptime is fine, but the "CAPWAP join time" is for like 30 seconds, or however long it took me to check. We've tracked this and it is totally random as to what AP will drop, which makes troubleshooting this very tough. The log on the AP isn't helpful. I'm working with TAC who suggests that keepalives are getting missed. I'm not sure why that would be the case since we have another 500 or so APs on the admin side that very rarely drop. Adding to that, when the students left for break, the AP drops stopped. They came back, and sure enough, the drops start up again. I will say that the AP always...

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students per AP in residence halls

January 11, 2013 | Tom O'Donnell

I was wondering what other schools have for a ratio of students to AP's in the residence halls, either definitely or approximately? If you have such a number, how do you count dual-band AP's? They're doing more than a 2.4GHz AP, but not quite as much as two AP's. Then one last related question... Would anyone know their relative mix of 2.4GHz vs. 5GHz connections in residence halls? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------- Tom O'Donnell Senior Manager of Network and Server Systems Information Technology Services University of Maine at Farmington (207) 778-7336 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

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Xpressconnect and Windows 8

October 24, 2012 | Peter Morrissey

I’m curious if anyone has gotten Windows 8 devices configured for 1x, using Xpressconnect. I realize there are lots of issues with
Windows 8 drivers that make this complicated, so I’m just wondering how it is working when the drivers are capable.

Thanks,

Pete Morrissey

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SSIDs, devices and guests

January 19, 2012 | Bob Williamson

We are a small(ish) boarding school (K-12) with around 100 boarders. We are located in a residential neighborhood with a lot of homes very close to the school. Management wants an SSID for guests which does not require a password. My corporate reaction is “that is crazy”. My secondary/new to academia reaction is “why not”.

If the guests network is completely separated from the internal network, severely limited in bandwidth, web filtered, protocol/applications blocked etc. Who cares? The only potential issue I could see is web filtering can’t stop everything.

Then there is the whole question of how to handle “personal devices” for staff and students. Any thought on that would be appreciated as well. Thinking of hidden SSID (simply to make it...

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4-channels in 2.4 GHz

May 8, 2012 | Lee Badman

With no intent to open a conversational can 'o worms, I'm curious if anyone is running a 4-channel plan on their production WLANs, that is willing to share their opinions and experiences on the topic.

Thanks-

Lee

Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer, ITS
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
315.443.3003

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FreeRADIUS performance question

August 22, 2012 | James P. Gogan

A question for folks with relatively large 802.1x (greater than 15,000 unique clients) wi-fi deployment (EAP-TTLS) with a FreeRADIUS infrastructure using Kerberos as the backend authentication …..

- how many FreeRADIUS servers do you deploy?, and

- have you changed any of the default eap.con/radius.conf performance parameters/values?

The good news is that we've started the year with a lot more folks finally using the 802.1x network than the last academic year.

The bad news is that we're getting long delays in connecting/authenticating -- not just a wireless issue as we're also getting lots of "RADIUS server FAILED" traps from our VPN concentrators throughout the day since the semester started (using the same RADIUS servers as the 1x wireless deployment)

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Apple Petition- Mid-Week Sanity Check

July 11, 2012 | Lee Badman

Folks,

Those interested seem to agree that we’d discuss specific pain points regarding “those other” Apple devices like AppleTv and any AirPlay/Bonjour-dependent gadgets until Friday, at which point we’d firm up the petition and find a place to host it. Then would come signatures, and ultimately presenting it to Apple, possibly via each of our Apple reps.

Neil Johnson has started the companion Facebook group, and has drafted the early version of what everyone appears to want from Apple development in petition form at https://www.facebook.com/groups/enterpriseairplay with 72 members joining thus far. (Thanks, Neil)

We have at least one CIO interested, and interested in...

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Fwd: Advance notice: Microsoft Windows 8 and Cisco centralised wireless incompatibility.

August 29, 2012 | Anders Nilsson

Hi,

I’m forwarding this from a colleague in the UK which looks rather serious.

I’ve not yet read it through but found it so urgent that I’ll forward it right away.

Cheers

Anders Nilsson

Umeå university

SUNET Sweden

From: "Paul Hill (phill)" <phill@CISCO.COM>

Subject: Advance notice: Microsoft Windows 8 and Cisco centralised wireless incompatibility.

Date: August 29, 2012 21:22:20 GMT+02:00

To: ...

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WIRELESS-LAN - Cisco APs losing CAPWAP session

February 1, 2012 | Earl Barfield

> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:29:57 -0500 > From: Dan Brisson > Subject: Cisco APs losing CAPWAP session > > I'm curious if any Cisco users out there are experiencing or have > experienced what we're seeing on our campus. This past summer we > installed 3502i's in all of our residence halls - approximately 500 > total. Ever since the students have moved in, we will get messages from > WCS stating that "AP XYZ" is down and disassociated from the > controller. When I check out the AP, the uptime is fine, but the > "CAPWAP join time" is for like 30 seconds, or however long it took me to > check. > > We've tracked this and it is totally random as to what AP will drop, > which makes troubleshooting this very tough. The log on the AP isn't > helpful. I'm working with TAC who suggests that keepalives are getting > missed. I'm not sure why that would be the case since we have another > 500 or so APs on the admin side that very...

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WAPS seem to die after switch reboot

January 11, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from vicutrone@vassar.edu

Hello, I am running multiple Cisco 4404 controllers Vers-7.0.116 and the majority of the WAPS are CAPWAP 1131's . The issue I seem to be having is that lately when I reboot an access layer switch, POE, 3750 series, with WAPS attached, I lose some of the WAPS. The WAPS never come back on line again and appear to be dead. They were completely operational prior to the reboot, but after reloading the switch, no switch configuration changes, the WAPS never come back on line. I have shut/no shut the interfaces of the switch, and the switches POST seems fine. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue, I have lose about 30 WAPS so far. Thanks!! Vikki Cutrone Network Admin Vassar College ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause...

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High Number of Disconnections - Mac 10.5 and up

September 18, 2012 | Hernan Londono

I would like to know if anyone is having an issue with a lot of disconnection for Mac computers with OS versions 10.5 and up. We are an Aruba deployment (M3 controllers and AP-105s/125s). For the past 3 weeks we have seen a high amount of disconnections where about 90% have been tracked Apple notebooks with the latest OS versions. I’d be grateful to hear if anyone one is having, of has had the same issue recently, and any possible recommendations to address the issues.

HERNAN LONDONO
Associate CIO

Barry University

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Wireless Client Subnet sizing

July 31, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from craigsimons@sfu.ca

All,

We are looking at re-engineering our wireless networking IP space and I'm wondering what type of boundaries other have pushed their networks to. We are currently using /22 networks (14 of them) most of which during a busy period of the day will run around 75-80% utilization (at least as far as DHCP assignments go). When I look at most APs during the day, I see that most APs have users belonging to several networks (roaming), and as we have multicast disabled, it would seem that the advantages of segregating wireless networks on the basis of limiting broadcast domain are moot. Is anyone running /21 networks or larger?

We've investigated NAT, but accurately logging internal-external IP address assignments for our users has proven difficult. Our vendor also doesn't currently support any type of "VLAN pooling" feature.

Interested in your opinions,...

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School blocks Wi-Fi access to smartphones to address IP usage issues

February 2, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User

Message from frnkblk@iname.com

http://www.vsuspectator.com/2012/02/02/outage-linked-to-usage/ Looks like VSU had to make some hard choices and is blocking Wi-Fi access by smartphones. Not sure why they couldn't add another RFC 1918 block, but I'm sure there's more going on than the school paper shared. Frank ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.

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