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A blog to cover any IT things relating to best practice, work undertaken, views etc
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This blog monitors and reports on broadband policy and marketplace developments in the UK, Europe and worldwide that are likely to be of interest to the Janet community.
Posts here may also reference my Broadband Policy Watch blog and you can also find me on Twitter.
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These printers are very basic ones and work fine if only used by the PC that they are connected to.
BUT on our network we have these shared and sometimes they will totally stop printing and won't print again until you have cleared the spooler and done reboot...
Here is the fix to allow these printers to be shared without GRIEF!
(Windows XP/VISTA)
1) Before you start make sure the printer now works from the PC that it's...
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Are we bypassing policy by using mac-address authorisation for devices that cannot do 802.1x or can but don't have a university username? Personally I don't think so.
We record the owner of the device and therefore have an auditable record of where the device authenticated by storing the mac-address in a mac-authorisation bypass file on the RADIUS Servers. This writes a log entry for all login attempts. After successful authentication and the...
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TLDR: clients will move to not supporting Diffie-Hellman keys of less than 1024 bit - upgrade your RADIUS server configuration or release to ensure its providing bigger Diffie-Hellman parameters in the EAP session
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On the back of the recent wave of further SSL attacks and weakness identitication, several vendors are now making moves to stop SSL clients from negotiating connections where the parameters have weak Diffie-Hellman (DH) keys. In the world of web browsers ,...