Documentation

On this page:

• Putting the case for JANET Roaming
• Case Studies
• Service Documentation
• Technical Sheets
• Presentations - Roaming what does it mean and how can you use it?
• Presentations - Networkshop 34
• Promotional Material for JANET Roaming Participating Organisations
• Guide to Content for your JRS Information Web Page

Putting the case for JANET Roaming

• JRS Benefits - a toolkit for making the business case (pdf) - provides JANET-connected organisations with the information and tools to assess and develop their own business case for the implementation of JANET Roaming. Organisations will be able to use this material, with suitable adjustments to suit individual circumstances, to build and develop their own business cases for the implementation of JANET Roaming. We encourage interested organisations to cut and paste the relevant sections to suit their particular business case.

• Executive Summary - the JRS Service in a nutshell - a concise double-sided one page summary that can be used by IT staff to inform senior management about JANET Roaming eduroam. This document states what the service does, includes a detailed schematic and lists the key benefits are and how these map on to typical institutional high-level strategic objectives.

• JANET Roaming Management Briefing and Business Case (pdf) - an overview of the JANET Roaming Service for IT managers at JANET connected organisations.

 

Case Studies

• A Case Study in Complying with the JANET Roaming Service Technical Specification (pdf) - a practical description of how University of Bristol implemented and complies with the JANET Roaming Technical Specification.

• FreeRADIUS v2.0.2 Implementation to support JANET Roaming at the University of Sussex (pdf) - a very detailed case study showing how the University of Sussex has implemented FreeRADIUS 2.0.2 with OpenLDAP and the necessary network infrastructure, based on HP AP 530 wireless access points and Procurve 2600 switches, to support the JRS service. How compliance with the JRS Tech Spec has been achieved is documented, including configuration scripts for EAP, realm handling, forwarding, attribute filtering, packet and database logging and log rotation. Sections on the configuration of HP AP 530 wireless access points and Procurve 2600 switches are also included.

 

Service Documentation

JANET Roaming Technical Specification (Word)  (pdf)   - Technical Specification for organisations participating in JANET Roaming. It is intended to comply with the requirements and best practices mandated at the time of writing by the eduroam Federation and in particular by TF-Mobility. JANET Roaming Policy (pdf) - outlines the minimum requirements placed upon all Roaming participants - organisations and users - to ensure that all parties can be relied upon to play their part in ensuring the service works effectively and securely. JANET Roaming relies on trust between participants for it to function properly. To maintain this trust, it is essential that all participants adhere to this policy.

 

• JANET Roaming Service User Guide (Word)  (pdf) - sets out information required for a visitor to a JANET Roaming-enabled site to make use of their guest network(s), both in terms of the preparations they need to make before their visit and actions required when on site. It also describes the service policies and responsibilities incumbent upon a JANET Roaming user.

• JANET Roaming Service Connection Guide (pdf) - digest version of the User Guide, concentrating on how to connect to the JANET Roaming Service.

• JANET Roaming Service Campus Deployment Guide - guides the deployment process of an organisation joining the JANET Roaming Service, from a 'high altitude' overview of the service down into the finer detail of application configuration.

• IEEE 802.1x Implementation at JANET-Connected Organisations - recent publication ...

• Overview of the JANET Roaming Service (http) - provides a high level technical overview of how the service works and what organisations and users must do in order to implement and use the service.

• JANET Roaming Pamphlet - introduces JANET Roaming, what is it, benefits, what is required to use and deploy, how it works, further information links.

• JANET Roaming Security Measures Factsheet (pdf) - describes the security measures designed into JANET Roaming and how organisations should make use of them to ensure the security of their visitors' computers and their own networks.

 

Technical Sheets

• Filtering RADIUS Attribtues with Microsoft IAS and NPS - 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.
• Using Certificates Issued by the JANET SCS with MS IAS (Word) - nine page technical documentation detailing how to use JANET SCS-issued certificates with MS Internet Authentication Service. Generation of certificates, configuring of MMC, importing certificates and configuration of IAS remote access policies are covered.

• IEEE 802.1x - three page JANET technical sheet on 802.1x outlining how it works , descibes message exchange making use of diagrams and listing currently available supplicants together with their main features and applicability.

• Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) - three page JANET technical sheet on EAP, describing how it works, EAP types and implementation considerations.

• Inter-NREN Roaming Infrastructure & Service Support Cookbook (pdf) This is the third edition of the comprehensive guide to eduroam technology and infrastructure. It includes practical examples of RADIUS server software configuration. Produced and published by GEANT2.

• JANET Technical Guide: Network Access for Guests (pdf) This guide has been written with the aim of helping organisations wishing to provide access to JANET for their guests to do so safely. Since it is not possible to provide a standard recipe that will be suitable for everyone, the guide first reviews the objectives that must be met, then considers a range of tools that can be used to achieve those objectives, and finally presents case studies from a number of JANET-connected organisation.

Factsheets

• Guest and Public Network Access (pdf) This factsheet covers the technical and policy issues involved in providing network access to visitors who come to an organisation merely to use its facilities and not 'in connection with the organisation’s publicly funded remit'. Nb such users are not allowed to use the JANET network, but organisations may if they wish provide Internet access for such visitors by using alternative connectivity.

Presentations

Roaming - what does it really mean and how can you use it?

Trinity House London November 15 2006

All presentations below are in pdf format.

• Introduction Ian Griffiths, UCISA-NG Chair

• Implementing the JANET Roaming Service Josh Howlett, University of Bristol

• 802.1x - What is it and why do you want it? Phil Mayers, Imperial College

• 2nd Generation Wireless Justin Rowling, Cisco

• Security of JANET Roaming mobile devices, Andrew Brimson, Khipu Networks

• Case Study 1 of JANET Roaming Implementation, Martin Crook, University of Plymouth

• Case Study 2 - Implementing the roaming service as a consortium, Alan Buxey, Loughborough University

• Eduroam: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Brian Gilmore, University of Edinburgh

Got anything to say or debate following on from the above? Why not post your comment on the JISCmail JANET Roaming list?

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JANET Roaming Participants technical only - JANET-Roaming-Support

 

JISC Federation Showcase July 2006

• Introduction to the JANET Roaming Service

 

Networkshop 34 April 2006

• 802.1x Workshop

• Enabling JANET Roaming at your Organisation

• Deploying 802.1x for JANET Roaming

 

Promotional Material for JANET Roaming Participating Organisations

Promotional material is freely available to help effectively promote JANET Roaming within participating organisations and to advertise where JANET Roaming is available within the organisation. Material is available to assist with the following:

• General advertisement of the service on campus and on JRS information web pages

• Advertisement of the specific locations at which JRS eduroam service is available on site

• Education of staff and student userbase about the benefits and usage of the service

 

Guide to Content for your JRS Information Web Page

A JANET Roaming/eduroam information page or section on your organisation's web site is a key element in encouraging uptake of the service by your students, staff and visitors. The web information should contain the key points to enable use of the JANET Roaming service at your site. This is mandatory requirement of the JRS Tech Specification.

• JRS Information web page content guide (pdf) [Word version].

 

 

 

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