Re: Securing Local Network

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I have seen this question before, the solution proposed was to give ip
reservations to all machines on your lan and then not give any dhcp leases
out. One of the others on this list could, I am sure, give the details
better than I.

Jon
"steve" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:KVkNf.93487$Id3.87682@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,

I wish to prevent guests and visitors to my office from plugging into my
LAN and getting access to my network resources (internet, printers,
intranet etc.). My primary concern is someone connecting an infected PC
onto my network that proceeds to DoS my servers etc. I know I can use DHCP
to prevent addresses being issued to foreign machines but someone knowing
my IP range could easily overcome this.

Having read materials online I think one option is to install a RADIUS
server, setup VLANs and then have all network devices authenticate before
they can connect, else they connect to a 'guest' network with limited
resources.

Can anyone provide some advice / alternative options please?

Thanks
steve



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