begin quoting AndrewMcHorney as of Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:28:16AM -0700:
> Hello
Please avoid top-posting responses. It leads to a failure to trim.
> Please excuse my ignorance but what is a DMZ?
De-Militarized Zone or Dead Man's Zone.
It's a subnet that's not part of the Internet OR your local subnet.
> I assume that by
> switch you mean a router or a switch.
Well, "router" and "switch" are not synonyms.
> I am guessing that the firewall
> software would be installed on the internet server which is connected
> to the dmz.
A firewall is basically a "filtering router". You put 'em up when you
want to control network traffic that passes between networks.
> Maybe what would help would be what hardware is needed here besides
> the computers, cables and the cable modem to get this started?
The fastest and easiest way is to get a little firewall box. They're
small, quiet, and cheap. You'd connect it so:
<Internet>--<CableBox>--<Firewall>--<switch-or-hub>--<computer>
| | +----<computer>
| +-------<computer>
+----------<computer>
.
.
.
If you want to set it up so that you use a computer (e.g., linux box)
to be your firewall, you'd add a second network card to that computer,
and then put it where "<Firewall>" is in the above diagram.
[chop]
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