Re: Wireless access by users with multiple devices

["Doty, Timothy T." <tdoty () MST EDU>]

That sounds like a good solution. I'm not sure if our network engineers
would have an issue with technical details of implementing that in our
environment (I'm *not* a network engineer) but definitely worth mentioning
to them.

Tim Doty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Porter
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 9:20 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Wireless access by users with multiple devices
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Doty, Timothy T. wrote:
>
> ...
> > The main problem we've had with wireless devices is that users often
> won't
> > register them. To facilitate the registration process we have a
> certain
> > number of IP addresses reserved for unregistered systems - basically
> no
> > Internet access but they can get to the online registration form. The
> issue
> > is that this is often "good enough" access for the user and they just
> don't
> > bother to register. Or they aren't aware/don't care that the device
> is
> > proactively acquiring a wireless IP address. Which means that the
> > unregistered IP address pool gets exhausted. To help with this issue
> if a
> > system stays on an unregistered IP address for too long it is
> automatically
> > registered in a way to deny any DHCP requests. It helps, but does not
> > resolve issue.
>
> Our unregistered wireless devices get an address from our internal
> net 10 IP address space.  We don't run out of those addresses, and
> we are not too concerned if the user can live in this addresss space
> and not register.
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Porter
> Systems Programmer V
> IT/NSS
> University of Delaware
>
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> Mike Porter
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