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iPhone (s?) Take Down Duke University Wireless Network

Posted July 18, 2007 7:00 AM by Tanner Godarzi
Categories: Problems 

imageThe addition of Wi-Fi in the iPhone was a relief to those who wanted an awesome phone but didn’t want to be tethered down to a slow network but for Duke University it raised a bit of hell to the say the least to their Wireless networks.

Kevin Miller the assistant director with Duke’s Office of Information Technology responded by blaming partially blaming Apple for their lack of support in the matter and has said that their Cisco based network is not the cause.

However I suspect that this could due to their configuration or it could be an actual bug in the iPhone but this seems to the first reports of any thing like this. It’s a little hard to believe that the blame can be passed on to Apple so easily when no other reports have surfaced which would prompt others to believe it’s the configuration but then again it could be the iPhones

Via: Apple 2.0

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  1. Is anybody surprised? Too much hype, not enough delivery. I will stick with my Q, with which I get my music wirelessly (through the “M” app from Mercora), and all the features things that I need. No reason for me to switch.

    Posted by Harrison Bergeron on July 19, 2007 12:34 PM

  2. NetworkWorld.com: Duke IT staff & their Cisco network confused by Apple iPhones; trade rags take bait

    Google news search: +iphone +duke +cisco

    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.

    Posted by Dan Oblak - MacBigot.com on July 20, 2007 10:43 AM

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