On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:48:39AM -0700, Eric Fox wrote:
> I know this is not specifically NetBSD related ...
> 
> There is a small hotel that is wanting to offer Internet access to their
> customers.  They already have broadband to the hotel and want to simply
> share it to each of the rooms (NAT'd NetBSD system).  The rooms already
> have RJ45 jacks from
> what appear to be the remains of an old PBX system -- I assume they can
> rework the wiring closet to make use of these (yeah, I know it won't be
> CAT 5, but I suspect it won't be that big an issue).

Lock the ports to 10Mb/s, Cat3 should be enough.

> They want each room to be servce via DHCP, but also want them to each have
> a dedicated IP for tracking/billing purposes.  So the question is, can
> this be done (a DHCP reserved IP for each switch port) with an "off the
> self" managed switch?

If it's a managed switch, then you should get all kinds of flexibility.

Default to leave the ports off, if they want access, call the desk,
desk turns it on, adds a charge to the room.  Part of the check-out
procedure is to turn the port back off.

Or.

SNMP.  Use something like MRTG/RRD to watch the switch, you see
traffic, they get billed.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org