Re: 2 Completely separate companies using same server room
- From: BSweeney <BSweeney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:44:00 -0700
With all due respect Phillip, I couldn't disagree with you more. We aren't
talking about a home office, or a converted coat closet, but an actual server
room shared by two different companies. While cabling is absolutely important
for the sake of keeping things organized and manageable, it provides no
actual security by itself, which is ultimately the concern of the orriginal
post. The seperate racks with lockable doors provide a reasonable level of
physical security in a room where two IT teams will be working on connected
networks. At the packet level, cables by themselves provide no security
without propper subnetting, routing configuration, and firewall rules. I'm
not really sure what you were driving at here, but while I believe that
cabling is important, I personally think that there is a lot more to be
considdered here than just the cabling in a well designed network
environment.
"Phillip Windell" wrote:
It is all about cabling. You just don't run the two networks over the same.
"wire". It is no different than if you had two IP Segments in your own
network,...each segment would be on its own "wire" and they would never
"touch" unless their was a Layer3 router placed between them for that
purpose. It doens't matter if they are in the same rack or not,...what if
there was no rack?,...they could be on the same table, same shelf, same
floor,..it's irrelevant,...what matters is how they are cabled.
--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com
The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"KTSmith" <ktsmith@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We are about to move into a 75 user building. 1 company has ~50 users and
company #2 has about ~25 users. These two companies have NO relations to
each other except sharing the same server room. I have been managing AD
2003 / Exchange 2003 for the 75 user office, but I must now make sure I
accomodate the other company into our network.
Since they already have their AD / we have ours and we have different
network ids (192.168.50.x for us and they are 10.0.4.x) - what or how do I
ensure that when we plug up in the server room we share, that we are truly
isolated from one another? What additional equipment should I get?
We have our own switches (not managed) and they have their own switch.
Our
switch will connect to a T3 line and theirs will connect to a separate T1
line.
Can someone please recommend a solution / equipment to ensure the physical
/
logical separation between the two company's networks?
Sorry so long, thank you.
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