I do not know networking. It was probably a bad idea. could the passwords be
enforced on a box just to the roomside of the firewall perhaps
room network <---> password box<----> firewall<--->www
Jim K

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From: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?


> 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
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