On 10/05/2010 03:06 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
I've just been asked by a client about disabling airport automatically
when a ethernet cable is plugged in. Their concern is they use a
hardened wifi system (I didn't ask but I'm assuming cisco aeronet,
since they are a big cisco shop) but wish to permit laptop users to
access other access points for travel use, etc. They are concerned
with a mac laptop hooking onto a rogue access point while connected
via ethernet as well, effectively allowing a would be hacker onto the
network, should they compromise the laptop while its connected.
They are mostly windows, and had found a third party tool to accomplish this.
I think I'm misunderstanding something...
They're afraid that...what, a rogue access point would have access to
their wired network if it connects to both? Wouldn't the OS X system
have to have bridging/sharing set up for that to work?
And what third party tool are they talking about?
If they're running Cisco equipment I believe many of them can detect and
report rogue WAPs in range of their own wireless equipment.
Probably the best thing to do is educate users to shut off the airport
when using wired connections. Set the wireless icon to appear in finder
(if it's not already), click it, and click to turn it off.
I don't know of a setting that will automatically turn it off but I'm
still wondering how it would automatically share the connection. I'm
pretty sure it has to be configured/initiated by the user, and if
they're company laptops, you might be able to lock that out using the
tools in OS X Server's managed client settings.
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