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JRS Hot News - March 2010

Full JRS/eduroam service now available at Kingston University - Kingston University, located in Kingston upon Thames London, has become the 68th UK organisation to assert a full JRS/eduroam service. We welcome the addition of Kingston to the list of eduroam sites in the capital.

New organisations joining JRS - we are pleased to welcome Canterbury College and the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie to JRS. This brings the total of registered organisations to 115.

February News:

New organisations joining JRS - we were pleased to welcome Richard Huish College, the University of London and the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen to JRS. This brought the total of registered organisations to 113.

FreeRADIUS 2.1.8 released (30/12/2009). The focus of the latest release is stability and 2.1.8 fixes a number of issues with 2.1.7 - notably problems associated with load balancing of RADIUS traffic across the three JRS NRPS when the ORPS was running 2.1.7 (and previous 2.1.x versions) and authenticating with a site also using FreeRADIUS 2.1.x. Following extensive testing we can report that client-balance and client-port-balance now work happily. FreeRADIUS is available from: http://freeradius.org/download.html

Xsupplicant 2.2.0 stable release for XP and Linux announced 29/01/2010). OpenSea's Xsupplicant can now be recommended for general use with XP. Following extensive testing and bug ironing this release is stable and is available for Windows XP, and Linux (both x86 and x64, with source available for building on other platforms). There is an aggressive project timeline in place for completing the port to Vista. It is planned for this to be released in April. Xsupplicant 2.2.0 for XP and Linux is available on the sourceforge web site: http://open1x.sourceforge.net/

Full JRS/eduroam service now available at Leeds Metropolitan University - the Leeds Metro has become the 68th UK organisation to assert a full JRS/eduroam service. We welcome the addition of Leeds Metropolitan to the growing list of eduroam hot-zones.

January News:

The next JANET Roaming Fundamentals course - 4th March Glasgow - will be held at the Teacher Building. For details follow link: http://www.ja.net/services/training/courses/roamingfundamentals.html
This will be followed by a course at The Studio, Birmingham on 17th March.

Full JRS/eduroam service now available at University of Abertay - the University of Abertay has become the 67th UK organisation to assert a full JRS/eduroam service. We welcome the addition of Abertay. Happy New Year roaming!

December News:

Just published - Filtering RADIUS Attributes with Microsoft IAS and NPS

This document gives a general introduction to RADIUS attribute usage in relation to VLAN assignment, the problems that can arise when users visit non-home sites when attribute filtering is not in place, the specific difficulties presented by Microsoft's approach to attribute handling in IAS and NPS and how to effectively implement attribute filtering with MS IAS/NPS.

November News:

Full JRS eduroam service available at new sites - the universities of Brunel, Cambridge and Warwick are the latest JRS-participant organisations to assert full compliance with the JRS Technical Specification and these institutions now offer full Home and Visited services. We welcome the addition of these new locations. Happy roaming!

Usage at an all time high - during October use of JRS in terms of both access-accept traffic handled and unique devices autheticating via the service reached the highest level ever. There were over 16,000 unique devices, broadly equivalent to users, which connected to an eduroam network using the national RADIUS system during the month. This excludes the users that authenticated using eduroam at their home sites.

Previously Published JRS News (follow this link to the archive)

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Key Facts about JRS

• The JANET Roaming service provides eduroam in the UK(*) which enables JANET connected organisations to offer high quality secure network services for visitors - without the need for guest account management, saving IT Support workload.
  (* There are now 115 registered UK organisations Map of JRS locations).

• Authenticated logon services can be provided over Wi-Fi, wired connection and from designated guest workstations - giving full access over JANET to other JANET-connected organisations and the Internet.

• Access to the national JRS infrastructure and the JANET JRS support service is free of charge allowing the service to be offered to guests free of charge. In many cases organisations which already have 802.1X infrastructure can implement the service at nil additional expense otherwise the only cost is for a RADIUS server and integration.

• Users log on at any eduroam network using own username and password, the same as on their home network, for all sites they visit – without having to refer to the IT department of the visited site.

• All eduroam connected users (visitors or local users) experience securely authenticated straightforward access to full JANET network services - giving access to the Internet, home organisation networks via VPN, web mail etc., and permitted resources on the local eduroam network.

• The JANET service forms part of the eduroam federation which includes participants in many other countries – extending usability of the service throughout Europe(zoomable map) and around the world.

Why implement JANET Roaming - is it for my organisation?

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