Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Does anyone know about some free (as in beer, and maybe as in speech) software > which would implement authentication and authorization of a user prior to > issuing a valid dhcp lease? > > 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. > What about 802.11x authentication? If they are authenticated, they are assigned to the 'internal' vlan and if not, an alert or something else is triggered?