Question

You are the network administrator for a city library. Throughout the library, there are several groups of computers that provide public access to the internet. Supervision of these computers has been difficult. You've had problems with patrons bringing personal laptops into the library and disconnecting the network cables from the library computers to connect their laptops to the internet. The library computers are in groups of four. Each group of four computers is connected to a hub that is connected to the library network through an access port on a switch. You want to restrict access to the network so only the library computers are permitted connectivity to the internet. What can you do to fix this problem

Answer 1

Answer: Configure port security on the switch

Explanation:

Since there need to be a restriction on access to the network so that the library computers will be the only ones that are allowed connectivity to the internet, the thing that can be done to fix the problem is to configure a port security on the switch.

When a port security is configured, it helps in securing the network and this will in the prevention of unknown devices from being connected to the network.