2 internet connections seperate staff and students

[max8699]

Hi All,
Ok a seperate fast internet connections has gone in at one of the schools i look after. They would like to keep the first connection they had and set it up so that staff use the fast connection and students use the old connection. Was thinking just set them up as different gateways and point staff to say the 192.168.0.1 gateway and students to 192.168.0.254 gateway.
So if person A logs in and they are part of the student group they go to the .254 gateway then if person B logs in and they are part of the staff group then they go to .1 gateway?
Is there a way i can do this automatically using script or GP?(The computers are on DHCP)
Would this even work

Regards
Max
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[gbaughma]

The kids will figure that out pretty quickly.

I would (and have in the past) put students and staff on separate VLAN's. This way, they not only have separate networks (essentially), but then you don't have to worry about the students hacking into teacher computers, etc.



Just my 2¢

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[tf1]

I agree. A VLan is the only way to go. Kids are brilliant at circumnavigating virtually any other method you try!


Regards: Terry

 

[kmcferrin]

I generally agree with the notion of separate VLANs, but if teachers and students are using the same PCs (as implied in the first post) then you get the same issue of how you dynamically change the network topology based on who logs in.

I believe that it is technically possible to use the NETSH command to change the IP settings on a PC. You should be able to script that process. But as Greg pointed out, eventually some enterprising student will run a network scan or something and discover the alternative gateway.

You could probably put something together with a proxy server to limit the student bandwidth use. Outside of that I think you'll probably just need separate PC hardware and (possibly) VLANs.

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[tf1]

Maybe it's ambiguous, but surely not! Students and Teachers sharing PCs!!!


Regards: Terry