[98165] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: iPhone and Network Disruptions ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominic J. Eidson)
Wed Jul 25 11:41:40 2007
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:07:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
To: Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com>
cc: "'Iljitsch van Beijnum'" <iljitsch@muada.com>,
"Prof. Robert Mathews (OSIA)" <mathews@hawaii.edu>,
North American Network Operators Group <Nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Frank Bulk wrote:
> If you look at Kevin's example traces on the EDUCAUSE WIRELESS-LAN listserv
> you'll see that the ARP packets are in fact unicast.
>
> Iljitsch's point about the fact that iPhones remain on while crossing
> wireless switch boundaries is exactly dead on. If you read the security
> advisory you'll see that it involves either L3 roaming or two or more WLCs
> that share a common L2 network. Most wireless clients don't roam in such a
> big way.
With the exception of our 1000+ Cisco 7920 phones...
Then again, they probably work just fine with Cisco's other products, heh.
- d.
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Dominic J. Eidson
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