On Monday 19 October 2009 01:36:58 Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 18 October 2009 15:18:29 Jonathan Moore wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > I imagine the following scenario: someone walks into my office > > > > building with a laptop (a colleague, a visitor, a guest, whoever), > > > > and hooks up onto the local net (wired or wireless). The server > > > > detects an unknown > > > > MAC > > > > > > address, issues a bogus dhcp lease which resolves all dns queries to > > > > a single internal web page with a form the user is supposed to fill > > > > in > > > > and > > > > > > send. After he does so, an administrator does a sanity check of the > > > > data > > > > > > the user provided, and grants or denies access. If access is granted, > > > > the > > > > > > user gets a new, unrestricted dhcp lease, which provides him with a > > > > normal access to local network. > > > > > > > > So what are my options? > > You might find Netreg (http://netreg.sourceforge.net/) useful. My > university uses it and it works quite well. This also looks promising. Thanks for the info! :-) Best, :-) Marko