There's a hack available for a few linksys routers that lets you assign a different IP range to the 4th ethernet port and keep it separated from the others. All the suggestions I'm seeing require additional hardware and constant electricity draw, where I feel the minimum hardware neccessary the better.
I would recommend either a central clarkconnect or smoothwall box, or a linksys router that supports the 4th network port hack and also virtual wireless access points (which can also be kept separate from home network). lopaka ________________________________ From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sun, May 2, 2010 11:16:41 AM Subject: Re: [H] Separate networks. You need two more routers. Give the first one a IP addresses of 192.168.3.1 and plug your modem into it. This is the WAN Plug the other two routers into the WAN. One end into one of the WAN ports and one end into the wan port of the individual routers. Give your new routers a different IP address, LAN one = 192.168.1.1 and LAN2 = 192.168.2.1 once you set it up all the routers will have access to the internet but LAN one will not be able to even see LAN two because the individual firewalls will block them. I have this setup using three Linksys routers. I set it up to isolate my LAN from my WAP. It was easy to setup, but for me it was a bear to actually get the routers to work the way they were suppose to. I kept having to call Linksys and they would do things like clone the mac address or some other trick, and eventually it all worked. However, once it was up and running it has run flawlessly for four or five years. Good luck, w At 10:48 AM 5/2/2010, you wrote: >Hey, > > > >Every now and then I need to bring people's PCs to my house. I use sneaker >net to copy over any files and all that I might need to fix their machine. >After I am pretty sure I have it all cleaned up, I then will connect it to >my LAN to make sure all the Windows updates are applied and anything else >that needs updating. > > > >What I'd like to do is to have two networks that can both access the same >internet connection but cannot see each other (unless I wanted them to). > > > >What type of setup would I need to have to do this? Any links that will >demonstrate it? > > > >I currently have a standard Linksys WRT54GS router connected to a Motorola >cable modem. > > > >Thanks, > >Bobby
