Around Sun,Mar 02 2003, at 02:54, Cory Petkovsek, wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:09:03PM -0600, Timothy Bolz wrote:
> > Cory & Ben
> >
> > Thank you for responding. I work at a hotel about 2 months back we got high
> > speed internet for our rooms. It's a homepna system. We have DSL to the
> > hotel and it's split from there. The company who installed and support it is
> > http://www.trinicor.com . Half the hotel has high speed. They Managers
> > need a usage log to see if a lot of people are using it and if all the rooms
> > are being used then they would install the rest of the hotel.
> >
> > I talked with trinicor and they can do the logging with the firewall. I
> > thought since my computer was on all the time I could log it.
> Logging at the firewall is a good place to do it. You could do it from
> your workstation as long as you plug in your computer into a port on your
> switch that is a monitor port. That is, a port that can see all traffic.
> Then look at projects like snort or ipband on freshmeat.net
>
> Assigning each tenant a username/password is not a practical solution since
> each one will be there for only a few days. The best way would be to check
> and see if your switch has snmp/logging statistics available. Then you'll
> get per port usage instead of per ip. However per ip will probably be good
> enough. It won't tell you which room, but it will tell you a fairly
> accurate number of users.
a low-tech solution could be to ask the customer if they used it, you
could also ask if now that they know the hotel is wired, would they
bring a computer on the next visit.
--
Roger
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