Setup information:
RB493 as router on a vsat connection with a LAN of 25-30 users.
The link is filling up quickly and i would like to give some users more bandwidth in reference to their seniority and need .
however, I have some smart alecs trying to beat the system by giving themselves static ips.
I have found out that the users were all using a web proxy via a linux box and now that i have moved them to MT the users are on a dhcp setup. I would like to know how to do the following:
1.allow only dhcp users to access the internet and block any ip that is not issues by the dhcp server.
2. Traffic shape the dhcp users (currently i have just made the users ip static and rate limited them) is there another way?
There are a couple ways that come to mind - like Hotspot and Usermanager. The simplest is probably use the DHCP server and bind the MAC addresses to a particular IP address, that way whenever they are on they will always get the same IP - and if they go static on you then it should block them because of the MAC/IP conflict.
You can also rate limit by MAC address - then no matter what IP they use they are still limited. You may have to also employ the Access List and Connect List under the wireless setup to keep them from changing their MAC addresses as well…