Recent content by agfinkel

multihoming It's not as easy as just connecting the two since each router is likely running DHCP, and also likely assigning overlapping address ranges. Having two outgoing internet connections and two routers trying to run the show makes it hard. An easier alternative is to multihome one or...

Sorry in advance if this is as much an A/V question as a networking one. I just recently set up a MoCa network, and it got me to thinking about the possibilities of using coax for other purposes too. Attached is a rough diagram of my network (sorry for the hokey picture). I don't use cable TV...

Drats, sounds like I'm not going to get very fast speeds =(. I'm using Unison within my network to sync up multiple copies of family photos. It's too slow to do over my ISP (I tried using an ssh tunnel) so I was hoping for a silver bullet using a direct wireless link. Thanks to all for the...

I have a crazy networking idea that I have no idea how to implement. I currently have a few boxes behind a switch attached to firewall/router. I want to also have my network attach to my neighbor with a similar setup currently (say through 802.11g bridging). Note that I don't have any need...

Thanks all for the good info. I'll have to play with putting pfsense on an old PC.

Thanks for the pointers. I was thinking about that path too since a firewall distro would let me do some neat stuff with squid and ad/content filtering without having to install adblock on every machine. Just out of intellectual curiosity, if I wanted to do it with vlans how would it work?

Traditionally to separate my wireless low-security network from my high security wired one of a few linux boxen I've used two el cheapo routers in a double nat config (cable modem -> wireless router -> wired router -> desktops). This allows me to have services like samba open on the wired...