[fw-wiz] Locking down public wireless access

From: Chris Bills (billschr_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/19/05

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    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.

    enforcing a logon policy would help limit the university's liability
    in said situations.

    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.

    I'm investigating the usage of Linksys WRT45G routers, with a modified
    firmware, but I have no actual experience with this. I would like to
    look into other methods of doing this, as well, such as Perfigo (which
    has now been acquired by Cisco)...

    If you have any suggestions for hardware, or existing documentation
    floating on the net about how to achieve this sort of setup, please
    let me know.

    Chris
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