Re: Lock out internet access?

Just curious.. Why would it be doomed to fail? Are you saying that
for security reasons you can't trust the user not to tinker, and put
the gateway back in? Or do you think that XP will somehow magically fix
this?

To sometimes connect the XP machine to get the occosional windows
update etc. (which is sometimes often) it is much easier to put the
gateway address in, run the updates, then take it back out. Making the
router configurations each time you want to do this is sensless. Unless
of course you are doing this for security reasons and don't trust the
user at the machine. In which case, I would think that the user
wouldn't have administrative privileges to the machine and this would
prohibit them from changing TCP/IP settings anyway. So, I don't
understand your remarks.



KW