On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
Good day,
We are trying to reorganize our local area network and I need
some tips on how you are managing your own lan...
We have a vanilla pc router with interface facing our private lan
and interface facing the Internet.
One problem which we are experiencing right now is that any user
from private lan can use any ip address he wants. If he boots his
computer with a stolen ip address, the poor owner of that machine
(not active at the moment) will give automatically up his ip
address to this user. The same scenario for public ip addresses.
Basically, we need to track down the users through their ip
address.. But this is trivial as of now since anyone can use any ip
he wants. Even if there is a solution out there to tie up his mac
address to his ip address..(sort of checking the mac first before
giving him an ip, possibly through dhcp..) still, users can just
download applications which will enable him to change his mac
address....
Now, where thinking about authenticating users before he is
allowed to use a particular network service(internet proxy, mail
etc.) because I guess it is a clever way of keeping the bad users
from doing something bad within your network when after all, the
reason why he is plugging his lancard to the network is to use a
particular service. However, it still doesn't keep them from
playing around and steal other ip addresses or mac addresses and
thus denying network access to those legitimate owners. I'm
thinking about tying dhcp with authentication, and freeradius comes
to mind.. I just need some more tips from you. User's workstations
are mixed Windows and *nixes. Some have laptops with wireless
interfaces.
Any idea how to handle this situations??
Why do you have bad users? (I assume this is some sort of company?)
Set a policy and punish those that screw around. Most companies I
have seen do not give admin privileges to the users so the user
cannot change his IP or MAC address and if you force them to use DHCP
you can also tie the MAC to the IP.
This is not a technical problem per se but an administrative policy
problem.
Chad
---
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Your Web App and Email hosting provider
chad at shire.net
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
