Static IP Question

[silencio]

Originally posted by Ya_know
Please expound. I don't know if it was just me that didn't understand that statement...

If a company is doing a hundred thousand dollars in stock market trades per week and you convince them to buy a $100 firewall that gets broken into a lawyer is going to tear you apart.

[thirdfey]

Originally posted by silencio
As a consultant you are legally responsible for the solutions you provide. If someone comes to me with 5 machines running stock market software I'm going to figure that the value of their data is worth more than a SOHO router. I'm not saying that it would be negligent to install one but the possiblity of a business ending lawsuit is worth avoiding.

GDPurple, why are they limited to 5 IPs anyway?

Reread the post from GD about trying to talk them into a hardware firewall solution, I think that will satisfy the lawyer in you

Tony

[Gollo]

Ok I understand now. Seeing all that info I would plug it into one of the computers, share it and be done with it. HP printservers have the capacity to run ipx and all those other flavors but they REQUIRE tcp/ip (meaning they need an ip address). You can turn off all but the tcp/ip (it's just required for the built in web based configuration). I would save the 300 bucks right now and get the printer without it. You can always pick one up later when they decide to get a "real" network

[silencio]

Originally posted by GDPurple

Anyway this together with soime other factors which i won't go into mean that for the short term at least we are stuck with just 5 IP addresses.



As I have already mentioned in my first and third post - they already have a router supplied by their ISP. Their internet connection works fine through their existing router. I'm just looking for a solution to get a Network printer working on their network.

Gotcha. BTW, I wasn't suggesting that you were planning on putting in a cheap router. I'm just addressing Gollo's suggestion which I think is a bad idea. SOHO routers are a great thing but... when you're running a business (and it sounds like they may be doing a stroke of business), cheap isn't the deciding factor. Value is. So when you look at a firewall and you look at security you have to consider how much you can lose (be it customer data, cash, or customer trust) in order to look at how much to spend.

[Gollo]

Originally posted by silencio
Gotcha. BTW, I wasn't suggesting that you were planning on putting in a cheap router. I'm just addressing Gollo's suggestion which I think is a bad idea. SOHO routers are a great thing but... when you're running a business (and it sounds like they may be doing a stroke of business), cheap isn't the deciding factor. Value is. So when you look at a firewall and you look at security you have to consider how much you can lose (be it customer data, cash, or customer trust) in order to look at how much to spend.

The reason I suggested a SOHO (Small office / Home office) router was because of the fact that they only had 5 systems. This was a pure assumption on my part and after getting all the details I see that this was flawed. I do agree though that you shouldn't scrimp on security especially if it's on mission critical systems.