We have a similar homegrown system for wireless auth, using LAMP. Basically put all our public ports (access points) on a vlan behind a linux box. Unrecognized macs are redirected to a login page on the webserver. There is a perl daemon on the firewall that accepts client connections from the webserver (php) and will allow/disallow your mac after auth (ldap).
We allow visitors if you know someone on campus. On the login page, just click the guest link and enter your name, company, and email address of someone on campus. That person will get an email saying 'so and so' wants wireless access, click here to allow it. if they click the link, that person will get wireless access for 3 days. We advise faculty if you don't know the person, don't click the link. So far this system has worked pretty well. I was thinking about a similar system for the dorm networks, but thus far they haven't given us any problems. I looked at netreg but it seems more complex that what we needed to do. So i don't have any software suggestions :) just wanted to share how we handle visitors. ray On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am looking for some software that I can put on my dhcp server and > force people to register to get a valid IP address. I am not really > looking for anything that does authentication, just something that > would be based on the "honor system" so that I can pair MAC addresses > with a name. We often have visitors here who do not have a valid UNIX > or other account, so auth would be nice but likely is not easily > doable unless I create accounts for visitors. I found www.netreg.org > and am considering using that software, but I was interested in > hearing from anyone who knows about a similar or better product. > > Thanks, > Shannon > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
