Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!paul
From: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Smart Bridge/Router
Message-ID: <1448@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 14:45:24 GMT
Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Does anyone know of a router/bridge that can be setup to restict/allow
access according to the packet's ethernet address.  We want to set up
a Novell network with one server for academic users (students) and one
for administractive users (such as the business office).  While we want
some people to have access to both servers, we do not want students to 
have access to the administrative server.  Is there a router that would
allow some users immediate access to both servers (according to the user's
ethernet address), while restricting other stations to just one or the
other server.  There are ways within Novell to do what we want, but
Novell's security is a question mark so we would rather really on hardware
means of restricting access.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

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