Re: Help needed with home network configuration
On Friday, March 16, 2018 08:53:00 AM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I haven't had the need to do that, and I'm not quite sure how I would go
> about it, but (thinking on the fly now), I might try putting a switch
> immediately after the modem, with two routers plugged into that, then a
> router and one firewall (and one WAP) for the DMZ, and the 2nd router,
> with a stonger firewall, and 2nd WAP for the LAN.
>
> (I like switches ;-) (Of course, most routers incorporate a switch, iiuc.)
Oh, thinking about it a little more (but not much ;-) , I may be assuming that
the modem has the capability to serve as a, I guess you'd call it a DHCP
server--mine does. (Although I don't use it that way--in my case, I installed
and prefer to use a Ubiquiti edge router immediately after the modem (with the
modem in "bridge mode" (in at least one sense of the way "bridge" is used)--I
forget all the reasons--oh, now I remember--I have some VOIP phones on the
LAN, and the Ubiquiti lets me set up some QOS stuff to give them higher
prioritiy.)
If my modem didn't have that capability, or maybe even if it did, I might rout
everything through a (probably, again, a Ubiquity edge router), then to one
router for the DMZ and one router for the LAN.
(I wish my brain worked more like it did when I was younger. Well, at least
in some respects ;-)
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