Re: Locking down public wireless access

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Chris Bills wrote:

> At my university, the computer science department would like to offer
> wireless access to computer science students, but would like the
> access to not be anonymous. Current problems with unrestricted access
> to the internet are obvious, anonymous kids downloading porn, movies,
> mp3s, etc, and as the university allowed this to happen, they could be
> held liable.

Use a kiosk gateway system like those in hotels or Internet cafes, there
are several available.

> ideally, we would like to implement a system in which the user will
> connect to un-encrypted wireless, but any attempts to get out will be
> redirected to the authentication page. Once the user logs in, they
> will be given the WEP key of the day, and then they will have
> unrestricted access.

Set up WPA and hand out the key, just control the authentication server
access.

Paul
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