On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:09:50 GMT John Navas wrote: | On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:44:48 GMT, Duane Arnold wrote in | : | |> snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: |>> I work in a shared office space, so it's to stop people just plugging |>> their PC straight into our router and using our internet connection. |>
|>Well, someone may have another suggestion for you, but I would disable |>the DHCP server on the router. I would then assign a static IP on the |>router to each wireless machine's NIC, which you'll have to manually |>assign the IP and configure each NIC manually to access the WAN/Internet |>or LAN machines via the router. |>
|>You do it manually instated of letting the router's DHCP server issue an |>IP to a machine wire or wireless that has the NIC configured to obtain |>an IP from the router automatically. |>
|>That means anyone with a wire NIC machine wouldn't be able to just plug |>the machine into the router and gain access to the WAN or LAN, because |>they would have to configure the NIC to use a static IP on the router. |>
|>They wouldn't be able to do it if the computer's NIC was set to obtain a |>DHCP IP from the router with the DHCP server on the router disabled. The |>router will not issue the IP(s). |>
|>Most are not savvy enough to know how to configure the computer's NIC |>for static IP usage on the router. | | But many are, especially those you want to keep out. I personally don't | think that provides any meaningful level of security. No offense | intended.
It's worse if staffer's children can come with them to work at various times. They tend to be the ones that know how to do whatever it takes to get on the net, access AIM, MySpace, etc.