Interesting - if you remember the name, I'll be interested in hearing it. Kurt
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember seeing a solution that issued tickets with a network key for > guests as they came in. The name defeats me though, sorry > > Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY > > -----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 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
