On Friday 17 June 2005 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Not necessarily true, if a user knows your IP
> addressing scheme, gateway, dns (easily obtainable
> from one of the PCs getting DHCP config info), he can
> configure that box to access the LAN/internet.

Unless there are specific IP's for lease from a pool, and 
only those IP's will be routed by the router; in which 
case a thug could play a guessing game, and might guess 
if the subnet is either too small or too big.

Mark.

> How about plugging it off the LAN, disabling the
> network card (BIOS/OS) [password protected of
> course]....
>
> Methinks that what it boils down to is why you don't
> want that Box to have LAN/internet access and how many
> users have physical access to that box.
>
> Firewall?
>
> Regards
>
> Benjamin
>
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