John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Sep 6 09:54:11 CDT 2004
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 ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com