Most if not all of the office space is for one person, maybe two.  So having 
more then one computer or a server is not the norm.  

Jon






> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Jon Kotek wrote:
> > At this point there are 6 runs of Cat5 already done, and they have a
> > 512K DSL line installed going into a smoothwall firewall server.  My
> > only connection with them so far is the fact that I know the
> > smoothwall part.  I would like to do some sort of web based
> > authentication I think going to a radius server.
> 
> So you actually want people to be able to walk through the building with
> their laptops and stuff, then? I was thinking of doing wireless as a
> replacement for wired, where you just set up a wireless->wired 
> bridge at each suite who buys internet access, and let them do 
> whatever they want with the ethernet port.
> 
> If you're going to force non-roaming users to authenticate via a web
> browser every time they want to hit the 'net, they may not be too happy..
> also, 11mb won't seem like very much if you're having everyone use 
> it for their LAN along with 'net access.
> 
> >  I am going to push the cisco gear since it can run as a repeater if I
> > need to, otherwise if the runs of cat5 are fairly spread out I would
> > be able to run a cheaper solution (WAP11) and go with MAC filtering
> > with WEP.  Now my other question is in using say a WAP11 AP would that
> > work with roaming (I am assuming that they want to promote access from
> > all conference rooms)  and still using MAC filtering??  Would I need
> > to update all AP's (I am doing a WAG of 4 or 5 per floor) that could
> > turn into an admin headache.  Otherwise throw out the MAC filtering
> > and just stick with WEP and radius.  I know they would like to have
> > some sort of accouting of usage, which
> 
> I'd still vote on IPSec to a VPN concentrator. That way, you can set 
> up whatever kind of account you want right on the concentrator. Plus,
>  you're actually going to be reasonably secure, which plain WEP+Mac 
Filtering
> isn't (yet).
> 
> As far as roaming, as long as they are all hooked up to the same physical
> network, you should be fine. If you've got a separate subnet for 
> each AP, it's quite a bit more difficult (need mobile ip or somethin).
> 
> -- 
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