I know, way OT, but I thought I'd pick people's brains on here anyway.
I'm thinking about adding wireless connectivity to my home LAN.
At present it looks like this:
+--------+
| switch |-- wired private network
+--------+
|
eth0
|
+-----------------+
| debian linux | +------------+
| server/firewall |-- eth1 --| adsl modem |-- internet
| gateway/router | +------------+
+-----------------+
What is my best option?
I was thinking of just putting another ethernet card in my server and
getting a wireless access point to attach to it. Then I could only allow
traffic through to/from the wired network through a VPN (probably using
openVPN, since I have used this before and it's easy enough to
configure).
What are the disadvantages of doing it this way?
And what hardware would you recommend to get this setup to play nicely
with linux?
I guess the other option is getting a wireless router which I could
attach to my switch.
How does this compare to using just an access point? Is it better?
Presumably it would be possible to setup the router so that it would
only allow VPN traffic through to my server and block everything else
between the wired and wireless networks - giving equivalent security.
Again what hardware would you recommend? Most wireless routers seem to
include a wired switch as well - which I don't really need.
Thanks for you suggestions,
dc
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