[NTLUG:Discuss] Router Needed?

[Kipton Moravec]

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
>
>
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