- May 24, 2000
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Here's the deal. I do the occasional computer cleanup when I need extra cash or for friends and family.
Whenever I bring in a strange computer to my network, I always yank the cable from the WAN port on my SonicWall router and plug the cable modem directly into the "stranger".
This is getting old, especially with as large as my home network is becoming (desktop, 2 servers, 2 laptops, Tivo).
Here is my plan (feel free to shoot holes in it):
Grab a cheap Linksys/Netgear/Dlink router of some sort and plug it behind the SonicWall. Leave DHCP on with the second router and setup a seperate IP range.
If my thinking is on track, this should isolate the second network from the first and prevent the stranger from communicating with my local network.
It sounds too easy and I am probably over-simplifying it.
Whenever I bring in a strange computer to my network, I always yank the cable from the WAN port on my SonicWall router and plug the cable modem directly into the "stranger".
This is getting old, especially with as large as my home network is becoming (desktop, 2 servers, 2 laptops, Tivo).
Here is my plan (feel free to shoot holes in it):
Grab a cheap Linksys/Netgear/Dlink router of some sort and plug it behind the SonicWall. Leave DHCP on with the second router and setup a seperate IP range.
If my thinking is on track, this should isolate the second network from the first and prevent the stranger from communicating with my local network.
It sounds too easy and I am probably over-simplifying it.