Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

2015-02-24 Thread Norman Elton
I think you've got it! Responses inline...

 1. student joins wlan and is presented with captive portal
 2. student logs in to the captive portal

They can use our captive portal or connect straight to our encrypted
802.1X SSID, which authenticates them on the fly. But, yes, we somehow
learn the device ownership.

 3a. if first time logging in, student is assigned 4 internal IP addresses 
 (per building) and DHCP reservations are configured in the DHCP server(s) and 
 device gets address from the reservation.
 3b. If not first time logging in and reservation exists for this device, 
 device gets address from reservation

Yep.

 3c. if not first time logging in and no reservation exists for this device, a 
 new reservation is configured for the new device (up to 4) and device gets a 
 lease.

Well, if a device is connecting for the first time, but the user
already has a group-of-four set aside for them ... then yes. Perhaps
they connected a laptop in the morning, and a tablet in the afternoon.
The tablet is assigned the second reservation slot. If this is their
fifth device connecting, a new group-of-four is assigned.

 4. student does their thing on their device, probably Netflix or some such. 
 Maybe even school work.

Let's go with Netflix :)

The key is that our F5 NAT's each group-of-four to a unique public IP.
And since a group-of-four is assigned to an individual user, we've
effectively mapped a public IP to an individual user.

 5. NAT translations/streams are logged and if needed can be traced back to an 
 internal IP.
 6. based on the internal IP reservation, you know the student.

We can use the flow logs to determine which of the four devices were
responsible for an individual flow, but if we can't pin it down 100%
(perhaps the timestamp is wrong, or we don't get a port number), we at
least know the public IP -- student mapping.

 Do I assume that you clear your reservations on a yearly or semester basis?

Right now, yearly. We've discussed releasing the reservations more
often (say, after three months of inactivity), allowing us to
accommodate more devices. But, at this point, we've still plenty of
room for growth.

Norman




On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Oliver, Jeff jeff.oli...@uleth.ca wrote:
 Thanks Norm, really appreciated.

 Just to be clear and make sure that I am understanding your setup (high level 
 anyway)

 1. student joins wlan and is presented with captive portal
 2. student logs in to the captive portal
 3a. if first time logging in, student is assigned 4 internal IP addresses 
 (per building) and DHCP reservations are configured in the DHCP server(s) and 
 device gets address from the reservation.
 3b. If not first time logging in and reservation exists for this device, 
 device gets address from reservation
 3c. if not first time logging in and no reservation exists for this device, a 
 new reservation is configured for the new device (up to 4) and device gets a 
 lease.
 4. student does their thing on their device, probably Netflix or some such. 
 Maybe even school work.
 5. NAT translations/streams are logged and if needed can be traced back to an 
 internal IP.
 6. based on the internal IP reservation, you know the student.

 Anything that I have missed? Do I assume that you clear your reservations on 
 a yearly or semester basis?


 Cheers,
 Jeff


 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Elton
 Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 7:57 AM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

 Here's a write-up I did a few months back. I'm happy to elaborate as needed!

 Norman Elton
 College of William  Mary

 =

 We recently converted to NAT, to solve two issues. The obvious is the growth 
 in wireless devices. Our five /21s simply couldn't keep up with the demand, 
 and we got tired of shoehorning extra subnets to accommodate. We were also 
 concerned with the amount of broadcast traffic, which being sent at the 
 lowest supported data rate, was needlessly occupying airtime.

 We knew some sort of NAT was in our future, and we wanted it partitioned down 
 to the building (or region) level to contain broadcast traffic. But our 
 security folks were apprehensive about tracking usage. Even with flow logs, 
 responding to a DMCA complaint could take a significant amount of research. 
 We brainstormed, whiteboarded, and head-scratched. Wouldn't it be nice if 
 each student had exactly one public IP address, which front-ended whatever 
 devices they had on campus, where-ever they were located? This would require 
 some sort of deterministic NAT, whereby the NAT appliance knows the owner of 
 a particular internal IP address, mapping any outbound traffic to the public 
 IP address associated with that user.

 Here's how we got there...

 Each building (or region) is assigned a /16 within 100.64.0.0/10 (reserved 
 for 

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

2015-02-24 Thread Oliver, Jeff
Thanks Norman, really appreciate it. 

Anyone know if Cisco's front end equipment is capable of this or similar? 


Cheers,
Jeff


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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:23 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

I think you've got it! Responses inline...

 1. student joins wlan and is presented with captive portal 2. student 
 logs in to the captive portal

They can use our captive portal or connect straight to our encrypted 802.1X 
SSID, which authenticates them on the fly. But, yes, we somehow learn the 
device ownership.

 3a. if first time logging in, student is assigned 4 internal IP addresses 
 (per building) and DHCP reservations are configured in the DHCP server(s) and 
 device gets address from the reservation.
 3b. If not first time logging in and reservation exists for this 
 device, device gets address from reservation

Yep.

 3c. if not first time logging in and no reservation exists for this device, a 
 new reservation is configured for the new device (up to 4) and device gets a 
 lease.

Well, if a device is connecting for the first time, but the user already has a 
group-of-four set aside for them ... then yes. Perhaps they connected a laptop 
in the morning, and a tablet in the afternoon.
The tablet is assigned the second reservation slot. If this is their fifth 
device connecting, a new group-of-four is assigned.

 4. student does their thing on their device, probably Netflix or some such. 
 Maybe even school work.

Let's go with Netflix :)

The key is that our F5 NAT's each group-of-four to a unique public IP.
And since a group-of-four is assigned to an individual user, we've effectively 
mapped a public IP to an individual user.

 5. NAT translations/streams are logged and if needed can be traced back to an 
 internal IP.
 6. based on the internal IP reservation, you know the student.

We can use the flow logs to determine which of the four devices were 
responsible for an individual flow, but if we can't pin it down 100% (perhaps 
the timestamp is wrong, or we don't get a port number), we at least know the 
public IP -- student mapping.

 Do I assume that you clear your reservations on a yearly or semester basis?

Right now, yearly. We've discussed releasing the reservations more often (say, 
after three months of inactivity), allowing us to accommodate more devices. 
But, at this point, we've still plenty of room for growth.

Norman




On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Oliver, Jeff jeff.oli...@uleth.ca wrote:
 Thanks Norm, really appreciated.

 Just to be clear and make sure that I am understanding your setup 
 (high level anyway)

 1. student joins wlan and is presented with captive portal 2. student 
 logs in to the captive portal 3a. if first time logging in, student is 
 assigned 4 internal IP addresses (per building) and DHCP reservations are 
 configured in the DHCP server(s) and device gets address from the reservation.
 3b. If not first time logging in and reservation exists for this 
 device, device gets address from reservation 3c. if not first time logging in 
 and no reservation exists for this device, a new reservation is configured 
 for the new device (up to 4) and device gets a lease.
 4. student does their thing on their device, probably Netflix or some such. 
 Maybe even school work.
 5. NAT translations/streams are logged and if needed can be traced back to an 
 internal IP.
 6. based on the internal IP reservation, you know the student.

 Anything that I have missed? Do I assume that you clear your reservations on 
 a yearly or semester basis?


 Cheers,
 Jeff


 -Original Message-
 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
 [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Elton
 Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 7:57 AM
 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

 Here's a write-up I did a few months back. I'm happy to elaborate as needed!

 Norman Elton
 College of William  Mary

 =

 We recently converted to NAT, to solve two issues. The obvious is the growth 
 in wireless devices. Our five /21s simply couldn't keep up with the demand, 
 and we got tired of shoehorning extra subnets to accommodate. We were also 
 concerned with the amount of broadcast traffic, which being sent at the 
 lowest supported data rate, was needlessly occupying airtime.

 We knew some sort of NAT was in our future, and we wanted it partitioned down 
 to the building (or region) level to contain broadcast traffic. But our 
 security folks were apprehensive about tracking usage. Even with flow logs, 
 responding to a DMCA complaint could take a significant amount of research. 
 We brainstormed, whiteboarded, and head-scratched. Wouldn't it be nice if 
 each student had exactly one 

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

2015-02-24 Thread Norman Elton
Here's a write-up I did a few months back. I'm happy to elaborate as needed!

Norman Elton
College of William  Mary

=

We recently converted to NAT, to solve two issues. The obvious is the
growth in wireless devices. Our five /21s simply couldn't keep up with
the demand, and we got tired of shoehorning extra subnets to
accommodate. We were also concerned with the amount of broadcast
traffic, which being sent at the lowest supported data rate, was
needlessly occupying airtime.

We knew some sort of NAT was in our future, and we wanted it
partitioned down to the building (or region) level to contain
broadcast traffic. But our security folks were apprehensive about
tracking usage. Even with flow logs, responding to a DMCA complaint
could take a significant amount of research. We brainstormed,
whiteboarded, and head-scratched. Wouldn't it be nice if each student
had exactly one public IP address, which front-ended whatever devices
they had on campus, where-ever they were located? This would require
some sort of deterministic NAT, whereby the NAT appliance knows the
owner of a particular internal IP address, mapping any outbound
traffic to the public IP address associated with that user.

Here's how we got there...

Each building (or region) is assigned a /16 within 100.64.0.0/10
(reserved for CG-NAT). So, Jones Hall would be 100.72.0.0/16. A
student computer, upon being authenticated to our NAC system, is
immediately assigned an IP address within every building's /16. In
fact, they are assigned the same last two octets across our entire
campus. So a student roaming across campus would get 100.###.154.24,
where the second octet corresponds to their local building number.

When we assign an address to a device (say, 154.24), we reserve a
block of four contiguous IP addresses for that particular user. So if
their laptop, being seen first on the network, gets assigned 154.24,
their iPad might get 154.25, their phone would get 154.26. If they
need more than four addresses, we reserve them another block. Remember
these assignments represent the last two octets of the device's IP
address. The first two are dependent on the building (100.72 = Jones
Hall, etc).

All of this IP address logic allows the actual NAT to run very fast,
with very little logic. The outbound NAT is handled by an F5 Local
Traffic Manager, in our case, a 4000S. This box can handle very rich
NAT applications using their iRules. In our case, it uses a simple
mathematical algorithm to examine the incoming IP address, mapping
each block-of-four internal addresses, regardless of building, to a
single public IP address. It sounds complicated, but it boils down to
10-12 lines of iRules logic. The magic is really the glue between our
NAC system and our DHCP servers. As soon as we learn the ownership of
an onboarded system, we determine an IP address and jam it into our
DHCP server.

The vast majority (96%) of our students have four or fewer devices. So
they occupy a single block of contiguous IP addresses. A small
percentage have five or more computers, so they actually are given two
blocks of addresses, which correspond to two public IP addresses.

Admittedly, this is hard to explain. It takes a few passes. And we
were a bit apprehensive about how it would scale. But, surprisingly,
it's working like a champ. No timeout values, no indeterminate NAT.
Room for growth. No need to dive into flow records, our security folks
are happy.

The only hiccup, and it was not unexpected, involves supporting game
consoles. Unlike your home Linksys router, the F5 does not support
uPNP. This will likely impact anyone doing NAT on an enterprise
firewall. Some peer-to-peer games do not work. But since a particular
game console is always assigned the same public IP address, we can
configure an inbound NAT rule for applications that use fixed ports.
This comes up VERY rarely (maybe three or four times so far).

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Oliver, Jeff jeff.oli...@uleth.ca wrote:
 Hey Norm,

 For those of us with limited IP space, this sounds really interesting. Not
 sure if it belongs on the listserv or not (feel free to contact me off-line)
 but I am interested in your setup/config and would like to know more about
 it. Would you be able to supply some details?

 ---
 Jeff



 From: Norman Elton normel...@gmail.com
 Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
 Date: Monday, February 23, 2015 8:11 PM
 To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
 WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

 Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

 We deterministicly NAT up to four devices for an individual user to a single
 public IP. As our typical user has less than four devices, it works out that
 most students have a single public IP assigned to them. Should they
 authenticate a fifth device, a second IP is assigned to cover devices five,
 six, seven, and eight. The effect is that we've quadrupled 

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] LTE-LAA...anyone?

2015-02-24 Thread Frans Panken

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This sounds as the same thing as UMA, using GSM/UMTS. Remember,
operators to offer home free or hotspot calling? This effectively
was realized with UMA, using Wi-Fi signals to carry GSM/UMTS traffic.

An alternative for upgrading your Wi-Fi AP with a GSM/UMTS/LTE module to
offer 2G/3G/4G services (for Cisco, see
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/universal-small-cell-5000-series/datasheet-c78-730979.html).

I see it as an opportunity to solve the bad indoor coverage. As an
alternative to DAS that requires a separate coax infrastructure.
Probably the upper band of the 5Ghz spectrum is interesting for LTE-LAA,
because it allows transmitting more power.
- -Frans

Philippe Hanset schreef op 24/02/15 om 14:54:
 We could have dreamed that 5 GHz was this “clean” spectrum that all our users 
 were going to move to
and simplify our life a bit!

 but wait...

 the carriers have decided that they could use it too (ever heard of
LTE-LAA?)

 Why would carriers stay in their contained and expensive Licensed
Spectrum when they could use the Unlicensed one…


https://gigaom.com/2015/01/05/ericsson-unleashes-lte-over-the-wi-fi-airwaves/

 The theory is that LTE-LAA will play nice with Wi-Fi …. in theory!

 Can you hear the pitch already?
 Hello Mr CIO, we can take care of all your Wi-Fi needs for campus with
a very reliable technology.
 No upfront cost to you, no Help Desk to deal with. Just a minimal
monthly fee for all you users that
 are already our customers anyway. And we deal with DMCA...

 LTE-LAA sounds like that very polite good looking neighbor that moves
next door and that eventually steels your spouse!

 Philippe

 Philippe Hanset
 www.anyroam.net http://www.anyroam.net



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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

2015-02-24 Thread Oliver, Jeff
Thanks Norm, really appreciated.

Just to be clear and make sure that I am understanding your setup (high level 
anyway)

1. student joins wlan and is presented with captive portal
2. student logs in to the captive portal
3a. if first time logging in, student is assigned 4 internal IP addresses (per 
building) and DHCP reservations are configured in the DHCP server(s) and device 
gets address from the reservation.
3b. If not first time logging in and reservation exists for this device, device 
gets address from reservation
3c. if not first time logging in and no reservation exists for this device, a 
new reservation is configured for the new device (up to 4) and device gets a 
lease.
4. student does their thing on their device, probably Netflix or some such. 
Maybe even school work.
5. NAT translations/streams are logged and if needed can be traced back to an 
internal IP.
6. based on the internal IP reservation, you know the student.

Anything that I have missed? Do I assume that you clear your reservations on a 
yearly or semester basis?


Cheers,
Jeff


-Original Message-
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Elton
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 7:57 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

Here's a write-up I did a few months back. I'm happy to elaborate as needed!

Norman Elton
College of William  Mary

=

We recently converted to NAT, to solve two issues. The obvious is the growth in 
wireless devices. Our five /21s simply couldn't keep up with the demand, and we 
got tired of shoehorning extra subnets to accommodate. We were also concerned 
with the amount of broadcast traffic, which being sent at the lowest supported 
data rate, was needlessly occupying airtime.

We knew some sort of NAT was in our future, and we wanted it partitioned down 
to the building (or region) level to contain broadcast traffic. But our 
security folks were apprehensive about tracking usage. Even with flow logs, 
responding to a DMCA complaint could take a significant amount of research. We 
brainstormed, whiteboarded, and head-scratched. Wouldn't it be nice if each 
student had exactly one public IP address, which front-ended whatever devices 
they had on campus, where-ever they were located? This would require some sort 
of deterministic NAT, whereby the NAT appliance knows the owner of a particular 
internal IP address, mapping any outbound traffic to the public IP address 
associated with that user.

Here's how we got there...

Each building (or region) is assigned a /16 within 100.64.0.0/10 (reserved for 
CG-NAT). So, Jones Hall would be 100.72.0.0/16. A student computer, upon being 
authenticated to our NAC system, is immediately assigned an IP address within 
every building's /16. In fact, they are assigned the same last two octets 
across our entire campus. So a student roaming across campus would get 
100.###.154.24, where the second octet corresponds to their local building 
number.

When we assign an address to a device (say, 154.24), we reserve a block of four 
contiguous IP addresses for that particular user. So if their laptop, being 
seen first on the network, gets assigned 154.24, their iPad might get 154.25, 
their phone would get 154.26. If they need more than four addresses, we reserve 
them another block. Remember these assignments represent the last two octets of 
the device's IP address. The first two are dependent on the building (100.72 = 
Jones Hall, etc).

All of this IP address logic allows the actual NAT to run very fast, with very 
little logic. The outbound NAT is handled by an F5 Local Traffic Manager, in 
our case, a 4000S. This box can handle very rich NAT applications using their 
iRules. In our case, it uses a simple mathematical algorithm to examine the 
incoming IP address, mapping each block-of-four internal addresses, regardless 
of building, to a single public IP address. It sounds complicated, but it boils 
down to
10-12 lines of iRules logic. The magic is really the glue between our NAC 
system and our DHCP servers. As soon as we learn the ownership of an onboarded 
system, we determine an IP address and jam it into our DHCP server.

The vast majority (96%) of our students have four or fewer devices. So they 
occupy a single block of contiguous IP addresses. A small percentage have five 
or more computers, so they actually are given two blocks of addresses, which 
correspond to two public IP addresses.

Admittedly, this is hard to explain. It takes a few passes. And we were a bit 
apprehensive about how it would scale. But, surprisingly, it's working like a 
champ. No timeout values, no indeterminate NAT.
Room for growth. No need to dive into flow records, our security folks are 
happy.

The only hiccup, and it was not unexpected, involves supporting game consoles. 
Unlike your home Linksys router, the F5 does not support 

LTE-LAA...anyone?

2015-02-24 Thread Philippe Hanset
We could have dreamed that 5 GHz was this “clean” spectrum that all our users 
were going to move to and simplify our life a bit!

but wait...

the carriers have decided that they could use it too (ever heard of LTE-LAA?)

Why would carriers stay in their contained and expensive Licensed Spectrum when 
they could use the Unlicensed one…

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/05/ericsson-unleashes-lte-over-the-wi-fi-airwaves/

The theory is that LTE-LAA will play nice with Wi-Fi …. in theory!

Can you hear the pitch already?
Hello Mr CIO, we can take care of all your Wi-Fi needs for campus with a very 
reliable technology.
No upfront cost to you, no Help Desk to deal with. Just a minimal monthly fee 
for all you users that
are already our customers anyway. And we deal with DMCA...

LTE-LAA sounds like that very polite good looking neighbor that moves next door 
and that eventually steels your spouse!

Philippe

Philippe Hanset
www.anyroam.net




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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

2015-02-24 Thread Oliver, Jeff
Hey Norm,

For those of us with limited IP space, this sounds really interesting. Not sure 
if it belongs on the listserv or not (feel free to contact me off-line) but I 
am interested in your setup/config and would like to know more about it. Would 
you be able to supply some details?

---
Jeff



From: Norman Elton normel...@gmail.commailto:normel...@gmail.com
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Date: Monday, February 23, 2015 8:11 PM
To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUmailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question

We deterministicly NAT up to four devices for an individual user to a single 
public IP. As our typical user has less than four devices, it works out that 
most students have a single public IP assigned to them. Should they 
authenticate a fifth device, a second IP is assigned to cover devices five, 
six, seven, and eight. The effect is that we've quadrupled our IP utilization.

It's mostly a matter of handing out predetermined IP addresses which include a 
series of bits used to identify which group of four it should be NATed to. 
Our F5 box can examine the private IP, do a little bit shuffling, and calculate 
the corresponding public IP. This calculation is extremely light-weight, 
allowing the whole system to scale quite well. The heavy lifting occurs when 
the device is on boarded the first time, at which point a group of four is 
allocated for the user.

Norman Elton
College of William  Mary


On Monday, February 23, 2015, Chuck Anderson 
c...@wpi.edumailto:c...@wpi.edu wrote:
If you have 1 public IP address reserved for each individual user, why
do you need to do NAT at all?  This is a serious question--if you
aren't saving public IPs by doing 1:many NAT, why do NAT at all?

Thanks.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:33:45AM -0500, Norman Elton wrote:
 We play tricks with our ISC DHCP server and a pair of F5 LTMs (similar
 to the A10 gear). The DHCP server hands out predetermined private IP
 addresses to devices as soon as we determine ownership (through our
 NAC). For outbound traffic, the F5 uses this private IP address to NAT
 to a public IP address that is reserved for the individual user. The
 end result is that no matter where the device is on campus, we know
 that 128.239.x.y is something owned by Joe Smith. If we need to know
 exactly which device, we consult our flow logs. But at least we're 99%
 confident we're dealing with the right student.

 I'm happy to share the gory details if someone wants to wrap their
 head around it.

 Norman Elton
 College of William  Mary



 On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Danny Eaton 
 dannyea...@rice.edujavascript:; wrote:
  We've got our Juniper SRX 5800 doing our NAT for all wireless, plus all 
  students and visitors (wired or wireless).
 
  We send those logs (and the SRX is VERY CHATTY about NAT) to our Splunk 
  server for the tying together of date/time, public IP and private IP - in 
  the event we get a notice from some TLA.
 
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  [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUjavascript:;] On Behalf Of 
  Heath Barnhart
  Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:12 AM
  To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDUjavascript:;
  Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] NAT tracking question
 
  We use a Sonicwall E8500 for NAT, it will log all NAT translations and send 
  them as syslog to a server for storage. I have logrotate changing files 
  every hour to make it easier to search on.
  --
  Heath Barnhart
  ITS Network Administrator
  Washburn University
  Topeka, KS
 
 
  On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 14:49 -0500, Jerry Bucklaew wrote:
  To ALL:
 
  We have a large Cisco wireless deployment with public ip address
  space.  Getting more public IP's is getting difficult so we are
  considering going to NAT.  The issue we have with NAT is that we still
  want to be able to map an outside IP back to a individual user.  Once
  you go to NAT that of course becomes more difficult to do.   I know a
  lot of you are probably already doing this and I was wondering how and
  what products do you use?  I assume most have a one to many NAT and then
  use something like a netflow collector to to track the inside NAT IP to
  the outside Src-IP/DST-IP/Port/Time. Any good working solutions or
  products would be helpful.

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