Comments on: Guest or Cleint Need Internet COnnection Through Access Point from Proxy Server

By: byteknight

byteknight — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:06 +0000

Hello,

I don’t know what OS your running, but if Windows or Linux is being used you may want to just add a DHCP service to the box and point it to the inside NIC. That seems to be the only request I see in your question (No Cost Solution).

My suggestion is upgrade to a PIX firewall solution and let hardware handle your firewall needs, and place the Wireless AP on the DMZ port of the firewall (if you don?t want clients gaining access to the corporate network) with DHCP enabled (Higher expense but better solution).

I don?t know what model of Wireless AP you have so I don?t know if it uses some weird IP range that is routed in some way, I would first use the tech support for the Wireless AP and get a suggestion that works best.

Regards,

By: larrythethird

larrythethird — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:43:28 +0000

As usual, Howard2nd is giving very good advise. One major question is how secure you want the corporate side of this setup. Using one system to do all of the routing exposes your internal data to war drivers and any hacker type of visitor. A DMZ is an absolute must. In a secure network, one system would interface with the corporate network and the internet. This should be a secure firewall/router/(and possibly a)NAT system. The visitor network should NEVER have access to the corporate network.

By: aftabn

aftabn — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:33:55 +0000

check if you can ping the access point from a computer on the wired network if it works then check if you assign an IP to a wireless client manually and they are pingable then set up a DHCP server on the wired network and you should be good to go.

hope this helps

Aftab