[NTLUG:Discuss] Router Needed?

[Kenneth Loafman]

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
>>
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