From: john matijevic (john.matijevic@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 18:26:46 ART
Hello Tony,
We were looking for a debug utility or a utility such as tcpdump that would
give us more detail information and security from the device, from the
Cisco. I have read on some of the ids capabilities which is good. Our team
rather uses the cli for configuration and management, so was hoping that
Cisco would have a CLI interface and debugging.
Sincerely,
John
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com>wrote:
> Which security features?
>
> For authentication, the Cisco solutions support all of the typical EAP
> methods. Cisco has a table of EAP and supported features somewhere on
> their
> site.
>
> Local EAP is a great concept, but it's a bear to manage. In large scale
> deployments, it's useless.
>
> But, Cisco has answers for those scenarios as well. Just depends what APs
> you want and what your layout is.
>
> The APs, when in lightweight mode, have access to the console. You have a
> subset of the typical autonomous commands and can only do basics. But, the
> whole concept is that the controllers control the APs. So, if you have an
> AP with a valid issue, just rip it down and put up a new one. No real
> reason to troubleshoot it in the ceiling.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> john
> matijevic
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 3:04 PM
> To: tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com
> Cc: Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: wireless solution
>
> Hello Scott and Tony,
> Thanks again for your feedback, unfortunatly there is no Cisco gear
> currently where I work, in fact all of my smartnets and benefits from
> previous companies have been taken away :(. From what I have been reading
> with Cisco, you can setup AAA and authentication using PEAP as the EAP
> authentication mode via RADIUS, as a fallback option if the Radius server
> is
> unavailable you can use local EAP authentication. With the Bluesocket, the
> appliance itself has more security firewall features than from the Cisco
> appliance, at lease what I saw from the demonstation on the controllers.
> Also there isn't a debug utility on the WAP on Cisco, so the security
> features weren't as robust as the Bluesocket from what I could see. But on
> the other hand from a managibility perspective the Cisco product seemed to
> have better manageability. Right now in our environment we have everything
> statically mapped via mac addresses and there is no directory based
> authentication. Also manageablity on Cisco from the WCS was through a GUI,
> so looks like the command line interface didnt have much features for the
> Cisco solution.
> Thanks again for your input.
> John
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Tony Varriale
> <tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com>wrote:
>
> > How many APs? N?
> >
> > The Cisco solution is very easy to deploy and run and has some nice
> > add-ons.
> > The WCS software is pretty nice.
> >
> > The controller software is very solid. 4.2 or 5 will treat you right.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > john
> > matijevic
> > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 1:34 PM
> > To: Cisco certification
> > Subject: wireless solution
> >
> > Hello Team,
> > I am looking at either a Cisco wireless solution or a Bluesocket Wiress
> > Solution. If anyone has any experience with the two that can help provide
> > me
> > some feedback.
> > In terms of Support, ease of deployment, managability. Also we dont have
> > any
> > Cisco gear for switches, and we are primarily Unix shop not windows.
> > If you have any issues with either one either product functionality, the
> > product itself, or support issues when you call in, etc, looking for
> > feedback.
> > Thanks again for your feedback.
> > John
> >
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