Changes

'''VT_WLAN''' service is available in approximately 90% of academic and administrative spaces across the Blacksburg campus. This wireless network is composed of unencrypted IEEE 802.11a/b/g /n access nodes. To limit access to faculty and staff, VT Communications Network Services uses a Cisco captive portal. They switched from Bluesocket during the summer of 2009. You have to register for [http://www.cns.vt.edu/html/wireless/wlan/registration.html Customer OnLine Access (COLA)] or in person at the Student Telecommunications Office to enable your account.

You can use CURL to log in from the command line or automate this (or any) web-based process. [[LUUG]] members previously provided scripts for the Bluesocket authentication, but due to the improvements that [[VT-Wireless ]] brings, noone has bothered to write a new script for the Cisco captive portal.

* The access points force SSL for authentication and are all signed by the Thawte Premium Server CA.

* Before authenticating, IPv4 access to internet sites is not available on any port. Some local sites can be reached.* You can ping (but not traceroute) without logging in. Ping tunneling works both locally and over the open internet. Some users have reported being temporarily banned from DHCP servers when ping tunneling before authenticating.* All wireless networks (including the .1x networks) on campus now use [[rfc:1918|RFC-1918]] addresses from the 172.31.0.0/16 network. These aretranslated 1 to 1 with NAT into 198.82.x.x addresses for access outside the wireless network.* You can IPv6 access IPv6 to local and internet sites like , including web access to [http://www.cns.vt.edu/ CNS] and Google without having to authenticate, is completely unrestricted regardless of authentication status, except in [[Torgersen Hall]] and [[Newman Library]] where new access points have been deployed.