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Network Situation Advanced Networking (Office)?

Ok this one is a tuffy. If you're a a novice to networking ,you may want to skip this one...

I have a client who used to run a business and then sold it. Now they have taken control over it again. They want to eliminate the existing network setup and revert back to their original. Easy enough, right?

They have 7 offices which they will rent out. They wish to offer internet both wirelessly as well as wired, Printer Sharing (1 printer 1 plotter). However they do NOT want to permit the (tenants) from accessing each others data.

Now I am drawing a blank on how to achieve this where the clients don't have to "do" anything, and where all the action can take place within the "landlords" end.

If possible...

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  • 10 years ago
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    This is fairly straightforward stuff really: to be honest I wouldn't trust a professional that it caused difficulties for. Pop each client and the shared resources on their own subnets - 8 in total. Hook them all into the same router and configure access control lists that prohibit routing between client subnets. A basic enterprise router will do this no problem - say a Cisco 2600 you can pick up on ebay for perhaps $30. You'll also need a managed switch to break out the individual subnets to access ports from a trunk port, since you won't find a router with eight separate ethernet interfaces. Again, perhaps $30 on ebay.

    As for the wireless the cheapest way would probably be to simply equip each subnet with its own WAP. A more elegant way would put the wireless into the router - again, enterprise grade wireless routers can handle multiple subnets and SSIDs over the wireless interface. I have a Cisco 1801W here that would handle that with ease, but you can probably go a bit more basic than that - an 877W _should_ be able to handle it.

  • Not possible. The landlord does not typically provide the network for the tenant; it's the tenant's responsibility.

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