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grue155 · 05-12-2009, 08:43 PM

A fairly simple solution would be to use a typical consumer model NAT/router in front of 3 to 5 machines (or however many ports the NAT/router has). That would divide your LAN into protected islands. If one island needs to talk to another island, then the NAT/router would need to have a static route capability (the low end consumer stuff usually can't do this), and you'd need to forward ports at NAT box on the other island.

You could probably borrow two NAT/routers, and test the idea out to see how it works.

05-12-2009, 08:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
grue155 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 240 OS: LAN Herder	Re: Simple network protection! A fairly simple solution would be to use a typical consumer model NAT/router in front of 3 to 5 machines (or however many ports the NAT/router has). That would divide your LAN into protected islands. If one island needs to talk to another island, then the NAT/router would need to have a static route capability (the low end consumer stuff usually can't do this), and you'd need to forward ports at NAT box on the other island. You could probably borrow two NAT/routers, and test the idea out to see how it works.