RE: Wireless access

["Keith T. Morgan" <keith.morgan () terradon com>]

<snip>
> > make things easier in their eyes. Unless I leave everything 
> wide open 
> > it's probably easier to plug an Ethernet cable in the PC.
>
> I'd put the access point outside the firewall if you have the 
> public DHCP address space. If not I'd put it on an isolated 
> DMZ segment. SSID of "meetingroom" or "visitor" with WEP 
> disabled. That gives them the Internet with no more rights 
> than any other outsider. 
<snip> 

I'd second this.  I think the DMZ interface of a firewall is probably
the best way to go.  Give out DHCP and let them connect up.  We've
deployed things in this manner once or twice with some added bells and
whistles like IPSEC VPN (only) access to the internal networks from the
wireless segment, should someone from your organization need to be in
there and using the wireless segment along with "untrusted visitors."
Another recommendation might be to have pretty verbose firewall logging
on the dmz interface, and in a perfect world, an IDS sensor listening.
This should catch nefarious visitors up to no good. We've detected
war-drivers a couple of times this way.  One of these days we might
actually physically catch one if we can react quick enough and find the
pesky bugger.

Bottom line, as John noted, treat that interface and all nodes on it as
completely untrusted.

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