"Bill Lewis" <blewis@hottopic.com> writes:
What is everyone using for enterprise grade wireless authentication for simple public access (i.e. users that are non-employee that need internet access (non-PCI) while in your building). Obviously I will hang this off a DMZ switch outside of my private LAN. Looking for something vendor driven, don't have time for anything home grown or unsupported / community based.
Assuming that this is for your offices not your retail outlets... Is there some reason you can't run it wide open without even so much as a captive-portal-check-the-box thing? All of the commercial boxes I've seen for doing what you say you want to do have been Deeply Unsatisfactory in some way (Nomadix is at the top of the list here). If you lose the authentication altogether and just make sure that there is a bandwidth lid on per host overall usage plus more conservative limits for things like the usual torrent ports and of course blocking certain other ports entirely... you've just eliminated the administrative overhead of issuing credentials to your visitors and streamlined your entire process. Doable? -r