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RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers
From: Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:51:40 +0100
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 21:46, Steven A. Fletcher wrote:
Certainly! There are a number of products that will do such a thing. Microsoft has had such things for a while now, even going back to the NT 4 days. On NT, they had MS Proxy which has now become Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server. There are other products, too, but that is one example.
This is a correct answer to Raoul's query, although this has nothing to do with the OP's question. He is not interested in blocking Internet access. he wants to "block non-domain computers from getting an IP address from the DHCP server" There isn't really anyway to do this effectively that i can think of. Most of the protocols involved in TCP/IP weren't designed for this sort of access control, although you can enhance them with varying technologies. Your only option for restricting DHCP access is to use MAC address filtering (which is trival to bypass) although if you combine this with IPSEC, then even if a client does get an IP it will not be seen as _on_ the network by other clients and servers unless it can gain access to the IPSEC layer. Windows has decent built in support for this, I suggest having a look at it. Raoul, if you are interested in options for blocking net access to non-trusted machines, start a new thread and I'll endeavour to answer it (would have done so here but it seemed you were just curious if your assumption was correct, rather than looking for a definitive answer) Regards -- Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue http://www.bsrf.org.uk [ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x96025FD0 ]
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- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers, (continued)
- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Rob Hughes (Aug 24)
- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Oleksandr Darchuk (Aug 25)
- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Alexandre Verriere (Aug 31)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Steven A. Fletcher (Aug 25)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Raoul Armfield (Aug 25)
- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Richard Boswell (Aug 26)
- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Don Voss (Aug 30)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Dan and Liz Boyson (Aug 30)
- Re: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Balaji Prasad (Aug 31)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Raoul Armfield (Aug 25)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Steven A. Fletcher (Aug 25)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers Barrie Dempster (Aug 30)
- RE: Blocking Access to Non-domain computers DeGennaro, Gregory (Aug 26)