Re: Discretionary WiFi Access

[Kevin <kkadow () gmail com>]

On 7/7/05, Dave Null <noid23 () gmail com> wrote:
> . . . one of the largest user communities that would take
> advantage of this would be non-employees. Vendors, Salesmen, people
> meeting with GMs/VPs/Execs are probably going to be the main users of
> this. My question is, if you currently have a similar situation in
> your work environment, how do you handle granting these people
> temp/guest WiFi access.
. . .
> I know the easy answer here is 'Dont give them WiFi access', but I
> don't think that is going to be an option. Thoughts, comments, flames?

So do what the coffee shops do -- give the outsiders low-speed "unrestricted"
access to the Internet with little or no firewalling or access
control, and require
some sort of strong-authentication VPN for anybody who needs access to
more sensitive "internal" networks and services.

The coffee shops somehow avoid getting sued over file-sharing and spam
incidents from their "open" WiFi, so you should be no worse off than they.

Kevin Kadow
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