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? > > Maybe a Network Access Control solution, either from a vendor such as Cisco > or a "roll your own" with something like <http://freenac.org>. Ok, this looks promising, I'll give it a detailed look tomorrow. Thanks for the info! :-) Best, :-) Marko