>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: bblisa [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel >> Feenberg >> >> We'd like to isolate a few machines from the rest of our LAN without >> renumbering them into a subnet. Edward> I don't envy the IT person or newhire who inherits this Edward> environment someday. I'm sorry my comment isn't constructively Edward> adding to the direction you want to go - you're probably very Edward> smart and have thought this through, and considered all the Edward> pros and cons, and have good management (or you are yourself, Edward> management)... And I'm sorry that this email will probably Edward> spark a debate about whether you should or should-not, and all Edward> the reasons why, which will distract from the answer that you Edward> actually want. That being said, it is almost never a good Edward> management decision to do "tricks" and configure systems in Edward> weird, uncommon, nonstandard ways that will be surprising or Edward> confusing to new future people, or just a later version of Edward> yourself, who forgot you previously did something weird. If I Edward> were manager there, it would require a *very* compelling Edward> reason to convince me this should be done. Hear hear! If you have machines you don't trust, why can't you re-number them? Or even put them behind a NAT/Firewall that exposes the original IPs for these hosts, but locks things down that way? _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
