Prevent users device from joining wifi

[manamaga2512]

Hi all, you'll probably need more info here but I'll supply what I think maybe needed in the first instance. We are soon to become part of a multi academy trust so I don't want to invest in any software which they will most likely do away with come easter time. Just looking for a quick way to prevent a user from connecting their mobile device to our school wifi. Far be it from me to tell the user what they should / shouldn't be doing outside of school, but when their mobile phone is creating web filtering policy alerts, I would like to stop them from joining our wifi. We have aruba AP's and smoothwall web filtering if it's possible via one of those, or maybe there is a way of stopping DHCP issuing IP's to their mac address in the future? I'm not sure. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Many thanks.

[NB9457]

Just blacklist the MAC address? You can do this both in DHCP and the wireless controller. It's what we do when needed. It will ask to join the WiFi, but all requests will then be denied.

[manamaga2512]

Just blacklist the MAC address? You can do this both in DHCP and the wireless controller. It's what we do when needed. It will ask to join the WiFi, but all requests will then be denied.

 

Yeah, i've not looked into this before but have just had a mosey round dhcp and found a Deny policy under Filters. Just to test I added the mac address of my mobile and although I had to turn my device wifi off and back on again, it failed to get an IP so it's all good. Not instant but will kick in the next time the user comes into school.

 

Cheers!