[156765] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: POLL: 802.1x deployment

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brent Jones)
Wed Sep 26 03:43:50 2012

In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1209260922370.22890@strudel.ki.iif.hu>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:43:24 -0700
From: Brent Jones <brent@brentrjones.com>
To: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

That is quite impressive that 5,000 orgs got 802.1x working correctly
in this fashion.
I had a lot of questions how they handled auth, but it appears auth is
distributed according to a roaming user's realm/domain suffix.

https://confluence.terena.org/display/H2eduroam/How+to+deploy+eduroam+on-site+or+on+campus

Fairly decent wiki on their site, bet others would find this helpful
for non-eduroam dot1x

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:37:38 +0200, Carsten Bormann said:
>>
>>> The entirety of eduroam is on 802.1X (better known as WPA Enterprise).
>>> That must be an 8-digit number of users.
>>> If you need a list of sites, start with
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduroam
>>
>>
>> However, that would be more a confederation of deployments than
>> one single large deployment.
>
>
> But each participating institution (more than 5000 universities and research
> centres) deployed 802.1x in their premises. Big bonus that they work
> together seamlessly (inter organisation roaming and 802.1x usage).
>
> Have look at the official homepage of eduroam:
> http://www.eduroam.org/
>
>         Best Regards,
>                         Janos Mohacsi
>
>>
>



-- 
Brent Jones
brent@brentrjones.com


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post