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From: "HOGGATT, ANDY F." <hoggatta () OTC EDU>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:27:27 -0600
Greetings, I've recently conducted testing using a piece of software called "Connectify". This software allows a user to turn their wireless laptop into a Wi-fi Hotspot. The software creates virtual wireless interfaces for its hosts and then utilizes NAT to make the connection appear as if it's coming from the Hotspot instead of the connected hosts. By doing so a student is able to allow other students to piggy-back off their wireless connection, with only the one device/user authenticated on our student, wireless network. When viewing the logs of our firewall, connections appear, in regards to both I.P. address and MAC address, as if the connections are originating from the Wifi-hotspot and not the connected hosts. I suspect that Internet tethering such as this may become more prevalent as more smartphones begin to incorporate this functionally into their operating systems. Has anyone else received any other reports similar to this and has anyone come up with a solution to help remedy the situation? Any and all feedback would be welcome. Thank You, Andy Hoggatt Ozarks Technical Community College Interim Network Security Systems Administrator hoggatta () otc edu<mailto:hoggatta () otc edu> 417.447.7535
Current thread:
- [SECURITY] HOGGATT, ANDY F. (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Sachnoff, Neil (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Dave Kovarik (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Roger Safian (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Maria Peluso (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] HOGGATT, ANDY F. (Mar 11)
- Re: Connectify David Gillett (Mar 11)
- Re: Connectify Di Fabio, Andrea (Mar 11)
- Re: Connectify Chris Green (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Russ Leathe (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Valdis Kletnieks (Mar 11)
- [SECURITY] Sachnoff, Neil (Mar 11)