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Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers
From: "Brinkman, Kathleen B. Ms." <brinkmkb () MUOHIO EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:18:59 -0400
Thanks to both Cal and Brenda for the responses. I will post our solution, once we select one. Kind regards, Kathie Brinkman -----Original Message----- From: Cal Frye [mailto:cjf () CALFRYE COM] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:40 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brenda B Gombosky wrote:
We do much the same thing - we have a web app that Faculty or Staff (no students) can request a sponsored Wireless account for up to 7 days for an individual. However, this is not secured, we set it up via the guests MAC address. Cal, is your guest access secure.
Secure as in encrypted over wireless? No. For historical reasons, we did not implement wireless security, as when we got started it was already clear that 40-bit WEP wasn't worth the trouble. As we had other issues for which encryption was desired, we encourage folks to use VPN for secure communication - one solution for all. This means our guests are on their own, as we're not licensed to give them VPN access ;-) But if you were asking a different question, Clean Access prevents unauthenticated guests from going anywhere on the net, /wired or wireless./ -- Regards, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still on their trail." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62).
Current thread:
- Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers John Center (Sep 14)
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- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Randy Marchany (Sep 14)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brinkman, Kathleen B. Ms. (Sep 18)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Custer, William L. Mr. (Sep 18)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Cal Frye (Sep 18)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brenda B Gombosky (Sep 19)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Cal Frye (Sep 19)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brinkman, Kathleen B. Ms. (Sep 25)