[NTLUG:Discuss] Router Needed?

[fredjame]

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
>>
Take Burton's solution:
<Internet>-----<ISP's Router>-----<HUB>----<firewall>----internal network
                                    |
                                  <DLink>
                                    |
                                Conference
                                   room
and add a printer to the HUB?
 

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