Re: NetReg: network access - cabled and wireless

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From: Robert Lowe (Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 09:24:52 CST


Jonathan Southwick wrote:

Jonathan,

> We are putting in a wireless network in one of our buildings and would
> like students to be able to register both their cabled network card and
> a wireless network card. We would like them to only be able to register
> twice total.
>
> The problem is this:
>
> Our means of disabling students when they violate our computing policy,
> are guilty of copyright infringement, or are known to be sending out
> viruses is as follows:
>
> * If we can find their mac address in the hubs we disable their port on
> the hub
> * This doesn't stop them from switching jacks with their roommate so we
> also zero out, i.e. 00:00:00:00:00:00, their mac address in the dhcp
> server so that when they try to access the internet they are an unknown
> client but can not register again because their user id is already in
> the dhcpd.conf file
>
> Is there a way to make a "group" in the dhcp.conf file of adapters to deny?

There have been recent discussions along these lines on the dhcp-server list.
Check the archives; look at the thread 'how to keep a machine off my network'.

   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107401382100001&r=1&w=2

-Robert

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> ========================
> Jonathan Southwick
> jonathan.southwick@allegheny.edu
> Technical & Network Services
> Allegheny College
> Meadville, PA 16335
> (814) 332-2755

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