Re: [fw-wiz] Locking down public wireless access

From: Paul D. Robertson (paul_at_compuwar.net)
Date: 02/22/05

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    To: Chris Bills <billschr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:18:07 -0500 (EST)

    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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