Lazzaman123

2 VLANs is the answer. Trunk the 2 VLANs down to you AP, manage it in your private network and present the public as another SSID. You will need to route a different subnet for your public network and use ACL's or a firewall to separate the two networks. What hardware are you using for switching/routing?

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Layer 2 VLANS are widely accepted as a form of logical seperation and security in the industry; ISPs, Carriers, Government etc all use VLANS. It simply isn't practical to install completely seperate physical networks. That said, I don't have any experience with HP or 3Com so my experience with this is mainly Cisco. As for your config and ACLs in particular why don't you implement a core firewall/PIX? If you install a firewall with enough interfaces to support the seperate networks you will definately improve security and administrative overhead, ACLs are great for a first line of defence but shouldn't be relied upon for protection against your servers, especially if you Wireless LAN is going to be open. You can also tie down the specific ports that need to be accessed, i'm sure you don't want clients RDP or SSHing to you DHCP server!

have you installed the full driver client or just the drivers? See if you can just install the driver files.... I have done this before with a different model of wireless card - saves space in the App tray too...

I work for an LA and we are more than happy to allocate more address space to schools. This saves messing around with NAT. L,

I would be interested in a response to this, we are about to put 50 of these in and wouldnt prove to great should we encounter the above. I will let you know how things go!

well 1300 physical workstations not that they all work... Myself and one of the other technicinans spend most of the day rebuilding broken workstations and laptops whilst also trying to juggle the standard user/level 1 replated problems. We just about manage to do it, but its very stressful! I thinks we do need another guy/gal really

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I'm new here obviously! Saw this thread and had to join I'm currently a IT technician at a large secondary school based in kent. we have 1600+ pupils and 200+ teaching staff with 50+ Support staff. We have over 900 student workstations, 50 staff workstations and 50+ student laptops with 200+ staff laptops. We run 9 servers, mostly 2k and 2k3 with an internet proxy and very confusing telephone system with over 200 phones. We have 43 HP Procurve switches across 15 cabinets all with fibre uplinks, and over 100 HP Access points over the site. 90% of our classrooms have Smart boards and projectors and we have 90 network printers. We recently bought 115 new student workstations and 3 new servers and are migrating the entire network from RM CC3 to a standardised in-house windows 2k3 network over the 6 week summer :S. Alongside all of this we are refurbing 4 new IT rooms with ceiling, carpet, desking, paint, A/C and workstations also over the 6 weeks. Whilst also preparing to deploy our brand new frog VLE and school website. There is one network manager and two technicians turning this on its head how much would pay us annually?? and would you say we need another member of staff? Thanks, !