We will be moving our office to a new building around Oct. 1st (for most of which I'll be gone on honeymoon in sept.) and with the move one of our sub-companies will move into the same office space. Currently they are on a separate network and will need to remain on a separate network due to the information and the type of services they offer (can hear the jokes now). At the same time, we will be removing our servers from a hosted datacenter and will bring them onsite (which of course means more work for me and less play time).
So what I was thinking of setting up with the new network would be one of two ways: 1st option: - Internet Frac T3 --> FW --> Managed switch - At the managed switch we would setup a DMZ and then point the sub-companies server to the switch, our DC to the switch and the 'production servers' to the switch - The sub company wouldn't be able to get onto our network and we wouldn't be able to get on their network (only exception to this would be the CEO, COO and myself) 2nd option: - Internet Frac t3 -->FW - FW would have four nics in it... one for the sub-company, one for our main company, one for the production servers and one for direct connection to the router(s) We will also be putting in place better security since we will be bringing our production servers (email, SQL, web, terminal) onsite and have client nationwide accessing our system. As I mentioned above, the sub company needs to use the same internet connection as the rest of the company, but needs to remain separate from the main company's network. Which option would work the best? Or is there a better option than what's listed above? _____________________________ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com <mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com> | www.aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
