This looks reasonable.

I brought up the filled lease table, and that got my manager's
attention, so I've gotten permission to do this.

Kurt

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Jim Holmgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did that at my previous gig.
>
> I also printed tent cards up and placed them in all of the conference rooms, 
> where company guests tend to gather.  We changed the pwd every 90 days and 
> just printed new cards.
>
> It worked well for me with no complaints.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Jim Holmgren
> Director of Technology Infrastructure
> Benefits Operations
> United Healthcare
> The Warehouse at Camden Yards
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> Baltimore, MD 21201
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:36 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> 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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