Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:47:36 -0800 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guest network on corporate LAN - options for security Message-ID: <CADy1Ce57Ro19LW8YBukCYefEYHpAXDd1e=mfU8guD34xXWQq%2BA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK0kqnk47JAfOwGxj46-V4sP7GwwVAm%2BdWP-OH6X8vvqTw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADy1Ce7nw0EKjDndZsdgiA9u8q%2BKkskc0=91MVZ4pcAZ-Ogddg@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BtpaK0kqnk47JAfOwGxj46-V4sP7GwwVAm%2BdWP-OH6X8vvqTw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> If this isn't the right list for this, please let me know. >> >> Quite some time ago, I set up an unsecured guest VLAN in our network, >> providing wireless access to all of the sundry devices that staff and >> visitors carry. I set up a small FreeBSD machine to serve IP addresses >> via DHCP, and that was dead simple. >> >> However, there are now other tenants in our building, and the subnet >> is getting too much bandwidth and address consumption - the range I >> set up is completely filled, and the VLAN is consuming about half of >> our Internet pipe, which is far too much for my comfort. >> >> I suspect the other tenants are leeching. >> >> Does anyone have ideas on how I can leverage that FreeBSD box to control >> this? > > > If it were me, I would consider replacing the FreeBSD Box with PfSense. It > has a lot of managment features built in so if you're looking to get those > without a big time sink otherwise, something like that is the way to go. Thanks. I'll take a look at that. Kurt
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