User authentication & MAC address filtering

Francis Tang · Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Malaysia

Hi there,
I came across this product through a recommendation in a computer mazine. I am planing to setup a HotSpot server to provide free internet services to our staff who use notebook/PDAs.

My company is situated in a commercial building whereby outsiders may able to access our wireless facilities without our knowledge. Hence I hope to protect this service from outsiders. Can your software do:
1) MAC address filtering and user authentication together.
2) Dynamic IP address allocation based on a given pool of MAC addresses.

Please advise.

Thank you.

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

1) FirstSpot does not block a particular MAC, but rather it uses MAC to identify client PC (we call it session handling). The user authentication mechanism is username/password.

2) You can define Static DHCP assignment if you know the MAC address in advance. Check out FirstSpot DHCP Server static mode within firstspot_guide.pdf for details.
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