Hi all,
Recently we've allowed other businesses to come onto our site and utilize our network and meeting rooms for conferences. The last event was 100+ people, mainly connecting to emails and making Skype calls - so it's a fairly large amount of additional network activity.
I created a seperate SSID granting internet-only access for them to connect to with web-authentication, which seemed OK at first but User's were continuously being disconnected and having to re-login via the webpage. I thought this may be because of roaming, and perhaps needing to re-authenticate every time a device connects to a new AP?
I did see there was a feature called "Fast Transition" which helps with this roaming issue, but I read that a lot of older devices don't support it so I was weary on trying this. So in the end I actually disabled authentication completely, meaning anybody could connect without being prompted for any credentials. Obviously this solution has it's problems, as we quite liked the idea of at least having a "Term and Conditions" statement to accept to connect to the network.
I was wondering if anybody has been in this scenario before where you're hosting an external organisation on your managed network, and whether you had any tips. We're primarily a Cisco environment with Cisco AP's and WLC.
Thanks!
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