This brings up some interesting questions. Would there be any legal issue with allowing open access from within your company (for this restrictive network)? Is web type access going through a proxy that is filtering? (Could the company be liable if something illegal is done from the company owned IP space (child porn etc.)? Any due diligence issues?? OR if a visitors information is stolen from the Internet while they were connected from this unrestricted vlan?)
Are more and more companies providing this type of unrestricted access to their visitors? How are others doing this? Is there an industry standard or a general practice ... Thanks, Amit -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: jon kintner; Rick Darsey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Preventing DHCP from allocating IPs We are dealing with this right now. We are creating an "area" on each floor that visitors can use. The ethernet ports in these areas will be using a private vlan that provides IP connectivity and Internet access only. These areas are ACL'ed off from our enterprise network. It is not perfect, but since we have good physical security and all other ports on the switch are disabled by default, it allows our vendors to use our network as a transport service only. I hope this helps a little. Chris Tillett