Seperating networks

[Tom Buskey]

On 10/19/06, Steven C. Peterson <scp at mainstream.net> wrote:
> I currently use a Linux box running Clark Connect to run my network,
> this box supply's a modified Linksys wrt54g to provide my wireless services
> that said *most of my devices run on the wireless*, the wrt54g pulls dhcp


Encryption of some sort for your wireless stuff.

If the wrt54g is controlled by you, you could put in an iptables
firewall/nat/router to make each ethernet port be on a different
subnet and blocked from each other.  If you can't do that, another box
with multiple ethernet cards would do.  I've run a linux box w/ 2 quad
ethernets as a pure router.  And old Pentium 200MHz is probably up to
the task even.

If your client does wireless and they're close enough, your wireless
bandwidth is reduced if it's encrypted, available if its not.

I'd get as much stuff off wireless as you can.  More secure (wireless
puts everyone inside your firewall) and faster.