John> I have a question about wireless access point security. We have
John> a multi-use center that I use for training and presentations.
John> By policy the access point must have the security enabled. It
John> becomes a giant chore when we hold training sessions and people
John> bring in their laptops from their offices. We are trying to find
John> an easier way to enable encryption. I want to have it similar to
John> when you go to a Hotel and open your browser and the access
John> point (or whatever device is connected to the AP) captures the
John> request and then you enter a code (usually your room number or a
John> code the front desk gave you) and bingo you get an IP and you
John> are setup. Does anyone have a pointer to information on this
John> subject? I can't put a LINUX box there so I am looking for a
John> device that would handle it.
Couple of quick questions.
1. Is this multiuse center on your internal network or outside the
firewall?
2. Is it only internal users who will be using this setup?
3. By security do you mean that people need to login with a different
username/password for each user, or can they all use the same
tokens?
4. Does the policy require WEP, WPA, WPA2 (link layer encryption) or
just end-user security?
Answering these questions will get you on the right track, but the
limitation of not being able to setup a box, Linux or otherwise, will
complicate things.
Having some sort of setup where your users goto the open Access Point
(AP) running a Captive Portal and are given a Certificate which
enables WPA/WPA2 on another closed AP might work. m0n0wall or pfsense
might be able to do this, but I don't have a clue on how the Windows
world really handles this.
John
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