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Austin Gossmeyer wrote: > > Given user management is hard work, I'd go for IP based if you can > > distinguish staff from students that way. > > > As all pcs on site use dhcp except servers I don't think thaat will work. > Is there anything to distinguish which machines are student machines and which are staff machines? For instance when I worked at Exeter College many moons ago the student network had a completely different range of IP addresses and was on a physically different network. Just thinking that if the machines are on a different range and can be separated somehow then you could have two gateways, one for the student machines and one for the staff machines. I've done things a little differently on my network (albeit it's a fairly small network), I have two broadband connections and two gateways, my Ubuntu server provides DHCP so I have entered my machine Mac addesses into the DHCP configuration so that I can specify which machines which use what connection, I presume your servers are running Windows Server to provide DHCP but even then if the machines can be separated on different scopes you should be able to specify which router each scope goes through. > > Alternatively speak to management and see if there is anything the staff > > should be allowed to do that the students shouldn't when using college > > resources ;) > > > As for accessing our isp filters stuff thus we have two isp proxies > but management aren't happy with the level of blocking provided. Thus > the only tech interested in linux me got handed the job even though my > knowledge is next to nothing. How do these two proxies currently work? Do you have two internet connections does everything run over one connection? Ta, Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html