Monitoring of wifi computers in our network.

[wifi]

I am looking for a simple web filter to block content from users who access our external WiFi connection. This connection is owned by our company, however it is NOT used for corporate network/internet access.



The WiFi connection is supplied by our phone company via a flex-plan through a T1 service. The WiFi is mainly offered for guest-use while they are visiting in our building. Therefore, I am unsure of how I would purchase "user" licenses when most of the users of our WiFi may only use it for a few days and never use it again, however there may be a dozen different users each month.



Could I please get an explanation on how these user licenses are used and handed out to client computers? Are these licenses applied by MAC address? Do they expire so they can be used by a new user in the future?

[gengw2000]

In your issue, the client computers are not fixed. So I am afraid you can not use "By MAC address" monitoring mode, because mac address is different for every computer.

I would recommend:

1). Narrow the DHCP services to a smaller IP range for WiFi connections. For example: 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.125. (Suppose you have 25 concurrent guest computers at most).

2). In WFilter, use "by IP address" monitoring mode, and set policy for these ip addresses.

This will work. If you have 25 cocurrent guest computers at most, you just need a 25-user license.



And I have to say, deployment of wireless monitoring is more complicated than monitoring of wired computers. Please check our wireless deployment example: http://www.imfirewall.us/help/doc/deploy_wireless.htm

[gengw2000]

The forum topic might be helpful:

http://forum.imfirewall.us/forum/yaf_postst121_Inquiry--How-to-monitor-clients-directly-connected-to-the-wireless-router.aspx