Re: stick a laptop to a LAN

[Steven Meyer <meysteven () gmail com>]

Waw! Thanks guys!
There have been a lot of great answers in witch I'll have to dig in.
But if using 802.1x allows me to guaranty that the laptop won't be
able to connect to a other network, then I imagine that it could be
the best idea and adding a RJ45-LOCK  would just to make it more sure.
My home network is with a windows 2003 server , with active directory,
dhcp server etc. and all the station are Windows xp pro.
Thanks for all your help, It is really a great list
Steven Meyer


2006/1/23, Vijay Souri <vijay.souri () gmail com>:
> hey,
>
> Depends on how your internal network is one suggestion would be to have your
> secure network on a specific subnet and confisure your network card to a
> static IP address from the subnet this way you will not be able to connect
> to most other networks which are on different subnets
>
> vj
>
>
> On 1/23/06, insecure <insecure () yandex ru> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > We already had a few discussions about preventing laptop to connect to
> > > our secured network.
> > > My question would be the exact opposite: we have a secured network
> > > with one laptop for external presentations.The only way to to put
> > > anything on the laptop is threw the network (CD ROM, usb, diskette
> > > etc. are disabled). But the real problem is how to protect the laptop
> > > from being connected to a other network and be infected with spyware,
> > > virus etc... and even worse having some of our data going threw other
> > > LANs.
> > > how could I be sure that the laptop will ONLY be able to connect to
> > > our LAN and not any other.
> > > Thanks for any help or hints.
> > > Steven Meyer
> >
> > Probably you have to create some kind of boot-cd with different
> antispyware, virusscan, IDS tools enabled for private use. This way you will
> boot every time with clean OS. Restrict access to the laptop, copy secret
> data to the disk only when it's needed and remove it immediatly after using
> (for presentation).
> > Just my thoughts...
> >
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