So, How do you enforce the password? Is each data port plugged directly into a switch where you could activate/deactivate ports?
Roger Around Sun,Mar 02 2003, at 03:53, Jim K, wrote: > Would it be easy to seat up a password username combo say based on room > number and billing address zip code or city? (i.e. when the front desk > clerk enters the information into the computer have generate an email > containing the information for username and password and length of stay and > automatically foreward it to firewall or other system that would read the > information and automatically create an account that closes say 4 hours past > checkout time. > This would give the guest a grace period to extend their stay.) > This may be a dumb idea. Perhaps the firewall isn't the system to > have the password access on, but it should be a hotel system i would think. > Jim K > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:02 PM > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring? > > > > > > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. > > -- Richard Bach, "Illusions" > > _______________________________________________ > > Eug-LUG mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- Roger --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you hear that two rabbits escaped from the zoo and so far they have only recaptured 116 of them? _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
