Thanks Stefaan...that makes sense. -----Original Message----- From: Stefaan Pouseele [mailto:stefaan.pouseele@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:49 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: ISA Design Question: Best Practice Hi Tom, I believe that some major switch vendors (Extreme, Cisco, ...) have some sort of authentication agent on their boxes. You can compare that feature roughly with the new 802.1X standard for Wireless Networks. If I remember well it works as follows: 1) when you plugin a device you become a member of a initial VLAN who has only access to a DHCP and authentication server. 2) after authentication and maybe selecting a profile, you are assigned a new IP address and the port is put into another VLAN. 3) it is the membership to a particular VLAN who determines what you can do on the network. Greetings, Stefaan -----Original Message----- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: woensdag 28 mei 2003 16:59 To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: ISA Design Question: Best Practice http://www.ISAserver.org Hi David, Yes, that is a cool option and I've seen it before too. If I had the time, I would have run NetMon on my laptop and try to figure out who they do it. I do know its MAC based, so once you make a selection, your MAC address determines the type of IP address you get. If anyone knows how it works, let us all know! :-) Thanks! Tom Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder <http://www.isaserver.org/shinder> ISA Server and Beyond: http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp <http://tinyurl.com/1llp> -----Original Message----- From: David V. Dellanno [mailto:ddellanno@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:50 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: ISA Design Question: Best Practice http://www.ISAserver.org The reason why I ask this question was that I visited this March at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto, Ontario and the Hilton in the subburbs (no, I don't have SARS). They had thier internet serviced by Cisco, in each room. a small cisco router (this was at the Fairmont, I forgot what model it was, but the Hilton just provided cat5 cable) but once connected to it, you are automatically connected to a webpage (this is the hotel's service aggrement and internet access choices). You have a choice to either be behind a firewall with a private ip or a public ip with no firewall protection. I thought this was a good idea to provide such a service and delegate the two types of configurations to the guest and contractors with no administration needed but I don't quite understand how this can be done? Thanks for you answer again. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: stefaan.pouseele@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.