From: Patrick Nixon (PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 10:56:15 CDT
Heh, since I'm getting a couple of questions I'll detail my situation.
As an entity we, like everyone else, has a AUP/Telecomm Policy. While
providing the information in the New employee Package is 'adequate' it's
also time consuming to push it out to all the new users as we were just
getting Internet access widespread. We needed a way to have the users
acceptance of the AUP be logged or prohibit them access. With some minor
changes to netreg this is a completely plausible idea. Before we were only
allowing certain users out on the internet using host entries with their mac
addresses in dhcpd.conf. By utilizing netreg, we are forcing them to 'sign'
the AUP with their password, logging the date and time it was 'signed' and
then permitting them out. Unfortunately since we have a lot of legacy
pre-technology people in our entity, not all the users are permitted to be
on the internet. This is a policy decision and not something IT is happy
about, but we do what we're told to.
Also, by using netreg, it forced me to build a web interface to manage the
MAC address and integrate it into netreg.
Overall, everyone is please with the system that we devised around netreg.
Currently we have 107 users registered, which is about 90% of our
'authorized' users.
--Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Valian [mailto:valianp@southwestern.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:47 AM
To: netreg@southwestern.edu
Subject: Re: NetReg: Students with more then one computer
Patrick,
Now what good would NetReg be if you already knew the users' MACs? :)
-p
Patrick Nixon wrote:
>
> While my reasoning for the solution was different from the one you have
> below, you could build in a MAC Checking routine to only allow certain MAC
> Addresses to register on the network. This is something a large amount of
> cable companies do for their cablemodem networks. While it does add some
> overhead to the registration process, it is feasible and would limit the
> accessibility of other users ports. While it is possible for another
> student to register a machine for the multi-pc'd student, the amount of
> effort for calling up the Campus IT department is usually beyond most
> student's time or effort.
>
> Now, I don't work in the campus environment so my point of view may be
> askew.
>
> --Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Ciesinski [mailto:fletch26@charter.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:48 PM
> To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> Subject: NetReg: Students with more then one computer
>
> We have it set up right now that some of our buildings have just enough
IP's
> to cover each port, but not any more then that. The problem is that some
> students are bringing more then one PC to school with them (if not 3!).
We
> want to have it so a student can not have a 2nd PC in the room to help
> reduce the possibility of exhausting the available IP's in a subnet. Does
> anyone know a way that this can be done?? I know I can only let a user
> register once, but what's to stop the user from walking down that hall and
> asking someone without a computer for them to register the machine for
them.
> I am looking for a way that the user can not bypass the restriction. I
was
> thinking something with SNMP but couldn't think of anything that may work.
> I figured I would ask you to see if anyone else has any ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Ciesinski
> University Wisconsin Whitewater
> Residence Life Computing
>
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