[dba-Tech] AV Updates

wow, instant subnets... I like it :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: 06 September 2004 15:54
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] AV Updates


Andy,

In your network, place a small (4 port) router as the connector to the
internet.  Let's call that BBRouter.  You connect its BROADBAND port to the
cable/dsl modem connected to the internet.

Connect the BROADBAND port of two more routers to ports of BBRouter.  Let's
call them AVRouter and WorkRouter.

The firewalls of AVRouter and WorkRouter will not allow the networks behind
AVRouter and WorkRouter to see each other.  IOW you now have TWO completely
isolated networks, each able to access the internet.

Now hook up all your users to WorkRouter and they work away, all able to see
each other and the internet.  Hook up your laptop to AVRouter and it can see
the internet as well but nothing else.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:56 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] AV Updates


Another admin question along the 'is this normal' line.

When a laptop has been out and about for a few weeks, and comes back into
the office we won't let it on the network until it has had its virus defs
updated and had a full virus scan. But it can only get on the internet via
the netowrk, so how to get it up-to-date virus defs? What we do is download
them (Symantec, using Intelligent Updater), put them on a CD, and update the
laptop from that. Is this the normal/only/best/c**p way to do this?


--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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