Making one Ethernet socket into lots??

[Rainmaker]

Why worry about routers and switches? Unless I'm missing something the OP can simply connect his usual device running the Cisco NAC software, and run a wifi hotspot off that PC (easy under Linux, even easier under Windows) to share the connection with unlimited wifi devices in his room while showing only a single machine IP to the network. No router, or expensive kit, required. Just an onboard ethernet card or mobo jack, and a £5 wifi dongle. (Edit: In fact he mentions a laptop which will have ethernet and wireless N built in anyway).

If the OP would rather have ethernet connections as stated (for the X-Box) he could add a second ethernet card to a desktop PC, and use it as a router. Else, just put it on wifi and suck it up. Better than no connection at all if the uni refuse to allow a router.

 

[irving1994]

Why worry about routers and switches? Unless I'm missing something the OP can simply connect his usual device running the Cisco NAC software, and run a wifi hotspot off that PC (easy under Linux, even easier under Windows) to share the connection with unlimited wifi devices in his room while showing only a single machine IP to the network. No router, or expensive kit, required. Just an onboard ethernet card or mobo jack, and a £5 wifi dongle. (Edit: In fact he mentions a laptop which will have ethernet and wireless N built in anyway).

If the OP would rather have ethernet connections as stated (for the X-Box) he could add a second ethernet card to a desktop PC, and use it as a router. Else, just put it on wifi and suck it up. Better than no connection at all if the uni refuse to allow a router.

Your right, and that was going to be my last resort i guess my only issue is i've always thought a connection via wifi is weaker than a wired connection, call me a connection freak but i hate lag haha

 

[DRZ]

Ubuntu box running as a router = sorted.

Source: I went to Uni there and had several servers running in my bedroom

Watch out though, the head of the network team is an active member here

 

[irving1994]

Ubuntu box running as a router = sorted.

Source: I went to Uni there and had several servers running in my bedroom

Watch out though, the head of the network team is an active member here

I've never used ubuntu before so would need a guide of some sort to set myself up, also wouldn't that mean i need another pc to do this?

thanks for the heads up as well, i'm at home at the moment so won't use the network to check this thread while at uni

 

[matthab]

pfsense?

 

[DRZ]

pfsense?

The problem with using pfsense is that it is *only* a firewall.

The beauty about using a desktop OS is, as far as the NAC stuff goes, plausible deniability. You fire up your Debian VM (as it was for me), open up a browser and log in. I don't know if it has changed these days, but at the time you didn't need to install anything on a Linux machine - it used the agent string to work out you were on a Linux box and that was that, log in and you're online. You don't need to do anything more to make it work - as far as everyone is concerned you're a Linux user...

From there, it is simply a case of setting up IP Forwarding / NAT (using IPTables) and hooking up the rest of your internal LAN to a 2nd port and using this box as your default gateway.

 

[tom_e]

I've never used ubuntu before so would need a guide of some sort to set myself up, also wouldn't that mean i need another pc to do this?

thanks for the heads up as well, i'm at home at the moment so won't use the network to check this thread while at uni

If they really want to find you then we already have your date of birth and I imagine your last name, so you wouldn't be hard to find on the uni system