Topic 1 Background

You are the senior system administrator at an investment bank in New York. The company has just announced a "bring your daughter to work day". You need to ensure that employees can still do their work however, you have some concerns. Some of the kids may attempt to access sensitive areas of the computers and the network.

Note that normally you would configure these policies on a server however, documenting the local solution will suffice for this Discussion Board topic.

When you think about the difference between the hardware and software ofa PC and a router, what do see as the strengths and weaknesses of each device? Which device do you think is more powerful and why?

2. Althoughthe Internet Protocol is now considered the only protocol to use for Layer-3 addressing, this was not always the case. Investigate and report on some other Layer-3 protocols that served the same purpose. What features do they share in common with IP? How are they different?