I have two CCIE's that work for me. Both also used to work for a Cisco VAR - so obviously Cisco bigots. They both recommended PA to me over the ASA. >From a security perspective, the PA do so much more than ASAs. We still use ASAs for some intranet firewalls.
Are you using the Cisco controllers with your WAPs? If so, they have captive portal capability. They call it Lobby Ambassador. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > Our Sidewinders are EOL at the end of April, and my manager doesn't like > them. > > He's a Cisco bigot, and wants ASAs in here. > > I'm fighting him to at least take a look at the Palo Alto platform, or > perhaps the newest iteration of the Sidewinders (which are now called > McAfee Enteprise Firewalls). > > That's an interesting tip on the Sophos solution. What did you use for > the hardware? > > Kurt > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, but > > you've got Sidewinders, don't you? > > > > Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's wireless solution where it's > all > > managed from the firewall? > > > > PS Sophos has this too, and they give their UTM firewall away free for > home > > use. Just bring your own hardware. I just switched to this the other > day > > and love it so far. I should write a blog post about it. (But then I'd > > have to create a blog...) > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> 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 > ~ 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
