Craig White wrote:
generally the preferred method is to require a VPN to connect the LAN
through a wireless system given the security implications of wireless.
I can't enforce that on all of our clients. Some of them barely
know how to properly turn off their computers...
that notwithstanding though, if you use a dhcp server OTHER than the
Linksys device, you can assign a useless gateway address to specific
clients which in effect would not allow them to get to any network other
than the network which they can directly access
Of course, I didn't think of DHCP. Yes, the Linux server would be
running DHCP and the WAP would get it's IP from that. I just need to
figure out how to tell it to have connecting clients fetch an IP from
the linux server once I turn off it's internal DHCP.
This whole thing is probably more convoluted than it really needs to
be but the gist of it is, when someone walks in with their laptop, we
want them to be able to connect to the WAP and only able to see one
single network drive (which is on the same Linux server) so they can
drop files for us. The server itself is also connected to our internal
network so our internal machines can get to it as well, however the WAP
can't go "through" the server and see our internal network.
However, if one of our employees were to bring in their laptop, they
can connect to the same WAP and would be able to see everything
"through" that server and access everything on the network (and
internet.) So there's some configuration that I need to figure out on
the linux server to start with. On the one hand, if an unknown client
connects, issue a dummy IP that won't have any network routing, but that
would still allow a local drive to be "seen" on that dummy network, and
if a known client connects, issue a valid (internal) IP so they can
work. Hrm. I wonder if the server itself also need to have a dummy IP
so it can communicate with whatever dummy IP gets issued...
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