[NTLUG:Discuss] Router Needed?

[Kenneth Loafman]

That would work.  I'm sure we can spare a printer to make this solution work.

The reasons I want the isolation are fairly obvious if you consider that the 
folks being isolated would be potential clients, investors, our own road 
warriors, and others that may not be savvy enough to know when/if they have 
one of the thousands of Windows infections out there.  We don't have the 
staff, or the guts, to tell an investor that he has to turn his laptop over 
so we can scan it.  So far, only a few problems have occurred, but I want to 
  eliminate any recurrances.

...Ken


fredjame wrote:
 > Take Burton's solution:
 > <Internet>-----<ISP's Router>-----<HUB>----<firewall>----internal network
 >                                    |
 >                                  <DLink>
 >                                    |
 >                                Conference
 >                                   room
 > and add a printer to the HUB?
 >
 >
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> What I want is for them to have access so they can check their mail.  
>> I would prefer that they not have any access to our net at all.  That 
>> said, I suspect that if an investor wanted to print, we'd bend over 
>> backwards to make sure he could do so.  What would the solution be then?
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>>
>> Kipton Moravec wrote:
>>
>>> Any of the off-the-shelf DSL or cable modem routers will probably 
>>> work. It just needs to have Ethernet inputs and outputs, which most 
>>> all of them have. Do you want wireless access too?  Some have it 
>>> built in. You need a router for DHCP.
>>>
>>> You want to have the conference room/guest work areas to have its own 
>>> separate private subnet.
>>>
>>> Now that I think about it, why?
>>>
>>> Do you want your people to be able to exchange data across their 
>>> laptops?
>>> Do you want them to have access to the internet?
>>> What other resources do you want them to have access to? (i.e. Printers)
>>> The more you open up the harder it is to do.
>>>
>>> Kip
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:17 AM 7/6/04, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stepping into the deep end here...
>>>>
>>>> What I want to do is set up a subnet here that isolates the 
>>>> conference room and guest work areas from the rest of the office so 
>>>> that folks can come in and use their laptops without being able to 
>>>> see the rest of the office and/or servers.  I'm guessing I'll need a 
>>>> router to do that isolation.  Is there a different solution short of 
>>>> banning laptops, or forcing them to be scanned by our non-existant 
>>>> IT security staff?
>>>>
>>>> If its a router solution, which one would be the easiest to set up?
>>>>
>>>> ...Thanks,
>>>> ...Ken
>>>
>>>