Thursday, July 19, 2007
Are networks ready for iPhone?
Associated Press is reporting that Duke University is having significant network trouble as a result of iPhones beginning to show up on campus.There are already 100-150 of the smart phones on campus and classes don't start for another few weeks. According to the AP story, iPhones have flooded parts of the campus' wireless network with access requests, freezing parts of the network.
Apple and Cisco are working with the campus IT department to try to resolve the network congestion issues.
It is not clear if this is something unique to Duke's network configuration or if this is a first of other incidents to come.
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 7/19/2007 09:45:00 AM 
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NetworkWorld.com: Duke IT staff & their Cisco network confused by Apple iPhones; trade rags take bait
Let me see if I can wrap my head around this -- some bored students figured out what the MAC address range is on the iPhones, and they styled an attack using a couple of Linux machines hidden somewhere on campus to masquerade as Apple 'troublemakers', and are sniggering at the resulting buffoonery created between the Duke 'network admins' and the press.
Hello!?!??!? If these are actually the people responsible for Duke's network, they would have better communication skills -- what they are saying is happening is less unlikely than impossible (unless the iPhone and Cisco's routers' SuperPowers are being boosted by the Earth's yellow sun and are no longer hindered by their original design limitations).
Why has this been going on for several days and yet no one has reported the same issue on another network?
It's because: It's not happening on Duke's network, either. It's a hack. A scam. A ruse.
By some students who can probably be identified by a duct-taped WiFi canon made from a couple of Pringles cans protruding from their backpacks.
The 'reporter' should be ashamed for not doing his homework.
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Let me see if I can wrap my head around this -- some bored students figured out what the MAC address range is on the iPhones, and they styled an attack using a couple of Linux machines hidden somewhere on campus to masquerade as Apple 'troublemakers', and are sniggering at the resulting buffoonery created between the Duke 'network admins' and the press.
Hello!?!??!? If these are actually the people responsible for Duke's network, they would have better communication skills -- what they are saying is happening is less unlikely than impossible (unless the iPhone and Cisco's routers' SuperPowers are being boosted by the Earth's yellow sun and are no longer hindered by their original design limitations).
Why has this been going on for several days and yet no one has reported the same issue on another network?
It's because: It's not happening on Duke's network, either. It's a hack. A scam. A ruse.
By some students who can probably be identified by a duct-taped WiFi canon made from a couple of Pringles cans protruding from their backpacks.
The 'reporter' should be ashamed for not doing his homework.
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