Google Expeditions wireless

[steveg]

We are trying to use google expeditions, initially with ipads, and then with some phones in the new financial year. I have 2 wireless ssid's which we currently use, a general one which all the student ipads are connected to, and a staff one, with radius authentication for staff, so they authenticate to the smoothwall box.

 

If I connect the staff ipad to the main wireless network temporarily, they can lead an expedition and all works fine. If they are on the staff wireless, the pupils can see the expedition, connect and then can't get any further. I know the devices need to be able to talk to each other (wireless client isolation is off) and assume they cannot do this between different ssid's. Is there any way to enable them to do this?

 

The network is 1 flat network - there are no vlans, so all ssid's are attached to the default vlan.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

Steve

[steveg]

Got a bit further with this, it isn't actually a wireless issue as far as I can tell, but a proxy issue. Our pupil ipads are configured to use a manual proxy server. All staff devices just use a transparent one. It would seem any device which has a proxy set will not connect to the lead expedition ipad.

 

If there any thing i can configure on the smoothwall device, to make this work? Long term I can move all pupil wireless devices to their own vlan, and then they can have a transparent proxy which doesn't require authentication, but for now i need them to connect to a specific proxy.

 

Steve

[dhicks]

Our pupil ipads are configured to use a manual proxy server.

 

Something to check: is Expeditions communicating over HTTP (or HTTPS), or is it using a completely different port? Is it possibly using web sockets, i.e. does your proxy support web sockets?