Colubris is at least one.

Thanks for saying that, it jogged my memory.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 2:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Guest network security

I remember seeing a solution that issued tickets with a network key for guests 
as they came in. The name defeats me though, sorry

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:36:00
To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>
Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
<[email protected]>Subject: OT: Guest network security

All,

Quite some time ago, I set up an unsecured guest VLAN in our network, providing 
wireless access to all of the sundry devices that staff and visitors carry. I 
set up a small FreeBSD machine to serve IP addresses via DHCP, and that was 
dead simple.

It is a layer2 VLAN, traversing our backbone, and terminating on our corporate 
firewall.

However, there are now other tenants in our building, and the subnet is getting 
too much bandwidth and address consumption - the range I set up is completely 
filled, and the VLAN is consuming about half of our Internet pipe, which is far 
too much for my comfort.

I suspect the other tenants are leeching.

What I've read of captive portals seems to indicate that the portal is part of 
the firewall. I could be wrong about that, though. Regardless, the corporate 
firewall will not be allowed to be part of this solution.

The only other alternative I see right now is to set up a password on the SSID, 
and have the front desk hand it out to guests, after mailing it to staff, and 
I'm getting pushback on that from my manager.

Does anyone have some ideas I could pursue on this?

Thanks,

Kurt

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