RE: user based IP address assginment

[David Ashwood <David.Ashwood () Rubus com>]

Why would you want to?

IP addresses are assigned to hosts based on which network segment they
belong to.

With user based IP addressing - routing and firewall config would be a
nightmare/impossible.


metaIP provides the relationship between user & IP which gives you what you
need for auditing.


David Ashwood



>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Luca Berra [mailto:bluca () comedia it]
>  Sent: 31 October 2000 07:25
>  To: firewall-wizards () nfr com
>  Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] user based IP address assginment
>  
>  
>  On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:42:46PM +0100, GS wrote:
>  > is there any Tool or any way to assgin an IP address 
>  depending on the UserID?
>  > The only thing i found on my research is META IP (by CheckPoint).
>  i assume you are speaking of ethernet (or similar way) 
>  connected machines,
>  then the problem is that you need an ip-address to 
>  authenticate the user
>  to the logon-server. If it were ppp authentication is done 
>  before the ip-layer
>  is brought up.
>  
>  i can think of 2 ideas,
>  1) use pppoe (PPP over Ethernet) to assign user ip addresses
>  2) assign ip addresses on a dummy network, then force the user to
>  establish a PPTP tunnel to a router.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Luca
>  
>  -- 
>  Luca Berra -- bluca () comedia it
>      Communication Media & Services S.r.l.
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