RE: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Ritchie
Martyn Hill wrote: Windows XP clients, which seem intent on discovering everything on the network and adding it to their own browse lists...) FYI: you can turn this 'feature' off -- it's designed for people setting up networks with just a couple of PCs in a small office. Start up Explorer,

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-23 Thread Michael K. Smith
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 06:31 AM, Martyn Hill wrote: Dear all I'd be very grateful for any insights you could share... Our school network continues to grow. Different departments within the school wish to piggy-back their windows machines on to our broadband internet connection,

Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Martyn Hill
Dear all I'd be very grateful for any insights you could share... Our school network continues to grow. Different departments within the school wish to piggy-back their windows machines on to our broadband internet connection, via our 100Mbps wired LAN within the building. Before I can allow

Re: Subnetting or Bridging to secure different dapartments on our School LAN?

2003-01-22 Thread Martyn Hill
Martyn Hill wrote: Do I use ifconfig to alias the one internal NIC in the present gateway to create virtual sub-nets? Bill Moran wrote: That would be the method I would suggest, however without more details of your network it's kind of hard to be sure it's the best method. What you