Xbox Live on Campus Bypassing Cisco Clean Access Agent

 Basically some universities have this god awful program called Cisco Clean Access Agent. It forces users to login to a 3rd party client which checks to make sure users are 1) registered to the university servers and 2) checks to make sure users have an up-to-date antivirus. This makes using Xbox 360's Live difficult because one cannot verify that they are a Student. According o some forums, Cisco has the Xbox MAC address already blocked since all Xboxes have similar ID's.

But now there is hope, here is one of a couple ways I got through my universities firewall, muahaha.

First off, log into clean access agent as you would normally. 

Step 1 Open Command Prompt

Now, after logging into the network and having access to the internet, open of the command prompt. Easiest way is to Click Start --> Run --> in the text box type CMD then click OK.

At the command prompt, type: ipconfig /all
This will list all your network identities and settings, hurray.
This picture below only shows a fraction of the networks, don't worry.

Comments

[mrbasher]

You should try this same process with a cheap router such as a linksys befsr41 or similar... You can often find these at second hand stores for about 5 dollars used. Just copy your MAC address onto the router.

The possible upside to this is the the network may not every ask you to "re-authenticate" your computer since the router will always be on and connected.

Another upside is that you can have the xbox and computer connected at the same time, both will always look like one computer is connected. As well, if the authentication does time out, you simply re-authenticate with your laptop and continue on as normal. No more unpluging things.

Good luck, but certainly worth a shot and much simpler. :)

[Snow1989]

I was wondering if you or anyone else would now how to do this same process on a Mac? Or if this would work the same way if I was to run it through Windows on Bootcamp?

[quantumphaze]

Although my uni does not use this, I have read that you can ask your IT department to add the MAC address of your Mac(intosh) to a white list. They should do this for Linux users too (even if you happen to secretly dual-boot Windows). If not then you must defend your right of choice and complain to everyone and everything.

To answer your actual question: All the CCAA does is tell the server that the computer who uses this MAC address is clean and allowed to use the network so dual-booting Windows to run it will validate your machine and you can run OSX with network access. Depending on the server's retention period you may only have to boot Windows once a week or less.