Re: Wireless Guest Access

[Randy Marchany <marchany () CANDI2 CIRT VT EDU>]

> Our main goal is to allow visiting faculty, staff, prospective students, and >
parents to have a way to use their mobile device to check email via their >
yahoo account, web portal, etc... 

We've had a guest wireless access plan in place for about a year now. The 
guests have to be "sponsored" by a University dept. The sponsor controls when 
they have access to the net (day, time of day). We don't restrict where they 
go once they connect. They do have to login to connect to the net so we have 
an audit trail.

SSID isn't a security tool and is pretty ineffective to control access to a 
network.

Basically, the guest registers the request online, the dept. sponsor reviews 
and approves the request, the guest uses the net during the allowed times.

see http://www.cns.vt.edu/html/wireless/wlan/guest/ for details on our guest 
access.

        -Randy Marchany
        VA Tech