> From: Entwistle, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access > > We have some ideas how we would like to handle this issue but are curious as > to > what others have done to accommodate these guest connections. Please > let me know.
We hand out guest accounts to authorized users of the network. Currently, anyone on payroll (including students) can authorize guest id's. As soon as the web interface is updated, anyone can generate guest id's. This gets around a key issue we see which is that students are giving out their login credentials to their friends so they can access the network. So we still handle all authentication, but authorization will work more /realisticly/. All users have the option using our VPN service (vendor c's vpn 3k) to encrypt their traffic or they can authenticate to our login gateway. The login gateway is used both for the wireless networks plus more and more datajacks in public areas. We do not differentiate the level of service we provide on our network. Faculty, staff, researchers, students, guests, and whoever is otherwise authorized are all valid users of our network and we do not DEGRADE our service to any of these user groups. I challenge peer public intitutions to stop this practice. Dale ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer | DoIT Network Services University of Wisconsin at Madison | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (608) 263-3628 | 24hr NOC: 263-4188 | http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
