combo wireless and wired home network

[Keith Morse]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Cowles, Steve wrote:

> Ed Wilts wrote:
> > My laptop has 2 connections - one wired when it's on my desk, and one
> > wireless.  When I'm wired, I'm on the inside.  When wireless, I have
> > restrictions as to which ports I can go through.  The ports available
> > through the wireless router are a subset of what's available on the
> > inside firewall.  Nobody gets on the inside of the inner firewall
> > unless they have a cable they can plug into my firewall/switch.
> > 
> 
> I actualy want to implement a network topology very similar to have
> described, even though I have helped all my neighbors that are within range
> of my WAP to install their WAP's. :-) Anyway, last week I drew up a
> current/proposed network design using Visio.
> 
> See: http://www.infohiiway.com/network

The ultra paranoid would put that AP on it's own network and require any 
valid connection to be terminated at the firewall via a vpn.




> I was thinking of using my linux box as a bridge and use iptables to filter
> on the MAC addresses/ports for the wireless devices. Shorewall makes it
> rather easy to implement this strategy. Plus, it would be a good learning
> environment for me to better understand linux's capabilities with bridging.
> 
> Now I just need to find the time...
> Steve Cowles
> 
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