Robert Haviland

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Google’s Social Login use with Captive Portals

Schools that use Google for Education can have hundreds of accounts that can be leveraged in many ways. One of those ways is to give access to a particular SSID on the school’s WLAN. This allows easy administration and accounting of who is using the WLAN. However, Google decided to block embedded webviews on September …

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Find a Loop in Your Juniper / Mist Network

Recently, I customer was saying they were having issues on their new Mist WLAN. Marvis is a great tool but it failed me on this one occasion. I looked at the Service Levels for the network and then notice in Insights / Events all sorts of Events for AP Reflection. I asked several Juniper folks …

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Enable Wi-Fi 6E in Ubiquiti

So you got a new UniFi U6-Enterprise AP? You plug it in. Get a new 6 GHz SSID configured. Push the updated configuration. Then you wait. And wait. Nothing. It seems that Ubiquiti enables outdoor mode on the indoor APs by default. Enabling the outdoor mode on Ubiquiti devices allows the device to operate at …

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Ruckus Social Media Login Using Google

Available as of version 6.1.0 Step-by-step guide Begin with Ruckus Steps Step 01In the vSZ GUI, navigate to ‘Network > Wireless LANs. Then navigate to the Zone you wish to add the Social Login SSID. and select ‘Create.’ Step 02Name the WLAN and SSID. Then use Standard or Guest as the Authentication. Then choose Method “Open.“ Step 03Encryption Options use WPA2 for Standard SSID or None for Guest.  Step 04Scroll down to Guest Access …

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Useful Ruckus CLI Commands 08.0.95

Switches Configurations Change password on switchenableconf tusername super password BR549JrSmplesexitwrite memory Connecting to the vSZ Speed up the process of the switch connecting to the vSZenablemanager disconnectconf tno manager active-list x.x.x.1 x.x.x.2manager active-list x.x.x.1exitmanager connectshow manager statuswrite memory APs Access AP from Switchssh 10.99.0.73 Have AP phone homeset scg ip x.x.x.x Factory Reset APset factoryreboot

Useful Aerohive CLI Commands

page updated 11 JAN 2022 HiveManager Classic VHM: Working with MAC / PPSK Bindings The easiest way to access the PPSK Server AP is to access it via the SSH Client Helpful commands are: show userThis will show all users the AP has knowledge of. This comes from the Authentication column of “2 – Configure …

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A Few Port Commands on Ruckus 8.0.61

Yes, I know this is old code but I have a few customers still running this version. Besides, I need a place to store it so I can find it later! Ruckus 8.0.61 Move port from one untagged VLAN to another Make phone port Remove from voice vlan always, always

A Few Cisco WLC CLI Commands

These are mostly commands that I need at various times. This is not meant to be exhaustive. Collecting Data about APs ———————————————————————————— *** Show data in a stream *** *** Disable *** *** Enable *** ———————————————————————————— *** Show all WLANs *** ———————————————————————————— *** AP Groups *** Tells RF Profiles in use WLAN ID and Interface …

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Create a CWP with a PSK that Redirects to an External Server

A question came up recently about whether Meraki could have a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) secured SSID that uses a Captive Web Portal that is hosted on an external server? Yes, you can. In the following example, I will show how to do that. I will NOT show the different ways the external server handles the …

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Orbi RBK853 (ax6000) first impression

The Orbi does what it is supposed to do — mesh other parts of your house until you can get an Ethernet cable to that area. Since my wife is also working from home now, she wanted the front room for her office. The problem is that our network is in the backroom, several walls …

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