There’s been a lot of good discussion within the Wi-Fi community recently about the viability of radio resource management (RRM), or the automatic selection of channels and Tx power settings by proprietary vendor algorithms. At Mobility Field Day 1 there was this excellent roundtable. Personally, I usually fall into the static design camp, for many of theContinue reading “Making RRM Work”
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This is How Wi-Fi Actually Works
I decided to write this blog because there appears to be a very common misunderstanding about how Wi-Fi works among end-users and even many network administrators as well. Instead of repeating myself, I can share this link with folks that need a little lesson in 802.11 operation. Wi-Fi is does not work like AM/FM broadcast radio.Continue reading “This is How Wi-Fi Actually Works”
Configure FreeRADIUS with Different CA’s for PEAP and EAP-TLS
Many WLAN’s administrators purchase commercial SSL certificates for their RADIUS server to use for PEAP 802.1X authentication. The advantage of this approach is that a cert from a common commercial CA is likely to have its root CA cert already installed on all the clients accessing the network. Although many clients will still prompt the user to trust the server’sContinue reading “Configure FreeRADIUS with Different CA’s for PEAP and EAP-TLS”
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