making machine on the network inaccessable to other machines

[ncage]

Hey guys...one of my hobbies is malware product testing. I know.....how boring huh? I guess to each their own . Anyways i know the basics of networking but what i really want is to make sure that the machine i'm doing doesn't have any access to any other machines on my network but it still needs to be able to access the network. Is there anyway to do this with sub net masking? I realize i could probably do this if i bought another router and just plugged the wan connection of the router into one of the switch ports on my main router....but is there anyway to do it without buying any hardware? I'd really like a nice managed switch with VLAN capabilities but i can't afford that .

I usually do my testing in a virtual machine so i even want the guest to be invisible to the host so i used bridged networking rather than NAT.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
Ncage

 

[JackMDS]

One solution is, http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html

Any second cheap Router would do.

 

[ncage]

One solution is, http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html

Any second cheap Router would do.

Ya pretty much what i was thinking above but in the configuration i was thinking the 1st router would be the "safe zone" and the 2nd router would be the unsecure zone but i was hoping that there was a way without having to buy another router considering i already have two routers because i have to operate both G & N networks and i and unwilling to part with my buffalo router with tomato firmware that is only G. So i really didn't want to have 3 routers. Also this doesn't really protect the host where i'm running the vm.

I remember there was some subnet mask that you could use were ever machine on your network was invisible to every other machine...but this wouldn't be good either because most machines do need to communicate with one another. So getting another router is my only option?

 

[JackMDS]

$9.99 free ship, and it is a good wire Router.

http://3btech.net/smcbafopo10b.html