Why not lock down the switches?  If the port is not used for your hardware
turn it off.

Jon

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Evan Brastow <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  Hi all,****
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> I've recently set up a wireless router in the DMZ on our firewall. This
> will allow consultants, salesmen, etc... to have a connection to the
> Internet when they come in, with no connection to our network.****
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> Now, however, in order to take the final step in this process and be sure
> someone can't just plug into a network port, it would seem I need to do one
> of two things:****
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> 1) Stop our DHCP server and give all network devices (less than 50 or so)
> static IP's.****
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> or****
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> 2) Restrict DHCP to only listed MAC addresses.****
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> So, my questions are - which of these two would be easier (does it really
> make much difference?) or is there a third option I don't see? ****
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> Thanks, as always :)****
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> Evan****
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