Network with a Neighhbour HOW?

Wouldn't you get away with chucking a pfsense box or something on one side of the link with 2 interfaces (one for each house) and use it to stop broadcast traffic going over the link, therefore allowing you to leave DHCP enabled? Or am I oversimplifying things?
 
blastman said:
just make sure it has the right capabilites, other wise it's nice and easy!!

you still have yet to explain how you entend to run this 100 meter Cat5 cable though other people's gardens!!!!!
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You laugh but I have a friend who did this a few years back - waiting till the neighbours went on holiday, dug up their drive and laid a cable under then put it all back. :p

What you want is a router/firewall with two WAN style ports, one goes to the internet, one goes to the other router, you have a routed interlink between them and can either put static routes on the routers to tell them how to reach the other network or if you're feeling flash use a routing protocol.

The cheapest way to achieve this will likely be some kind of linux firewall distro (if you have spare hardware) or a pair of cheap enterprise firewalls (Juniper SSG5 or similar if you can find a cheapish pair on ebay).

Basically you need to bribe somebody who knows some networking with beer for a day to get it set up properly...
 
bigredshark said:
It will unfortunately but I will hunt you down and kill you for crimes against good network design... ;)
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This is looking the easiest and best method for us as it involves 1 cable, and the addition of a single giga switch.

Im pretty sure i can configure the routers as described but, i just want to confirm that this will work correctly. The switches will be netgear gigabit switches

We will be able to see and grab files from each others network

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I'd personally have one of the routers running DHCP for the whole network otherwise you are may have sharing issues using netbios names... imo.
 
bigredshark said:
It will unfortunately but I will hunt you down and kill you for crimes against good network design... ;)
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Thanks :L

That just seemed the easiest and cheapest solution. You could enable DHCP on one of the routers, but anything that connected with a auto ip would connect to that router, ie. You put DHCP on in house one and someone visits house two, connects wirelessly via DHCP and they will connect to house 1's internet connection.

I added the gigabit switch to make transfers between houses nice and fast :)
 
Ryan111 said:
Thanks :L

That just seemed the easiest and cheapest solution. You could enable DHCP on one of the routers, but anything that connected with a auto ip would connect to that router, ie. You put DHCP on in house one and someone visits house two, connects wirelessly via DHCP and they will connect to house 1's internet connection.

I added the gigabit switch to make transfers between houses nice and fast :)
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Thats not good, also how will it handle iphones and stuff connecting via wi-fi will they have to enter an ip address
 
J.B said:
Thats how I'd do it if I were on a tight budget, cant see why it wouldnt work.
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Oh it'll work, it's just horrible misuse of IP addressing, I think you'd be better off multi-netting and assigning secondary IPs instead of that (and multi-netting is a crime in it's own right).
 
bigredshark said:
Oh it'll work, it's just horrible misuse of IP addressing, I think you'd be better off multi-netting and assigning secondary IPs instead of that (and multi-netting is a crime in it's own right).
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Oh yeah, its not exactly best practise but given the situation and the equipment available...

Bit off topic bigred but are you ever going to get your sig back, I like your fibre optical graphic thing you had
 
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J.B said:
Oh yeah, its not exactly best practise but given the situation and the equipment available...

Bit off topic bigred but are you ever going to get your sig back, I like your fibre optical graphic thing you had
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So out of curiosity what would be the best way of doing it, I proberbly wont understand but its something i can look into.

Depending on the cost will might aim to do it the proper way
 
littledave said:
So out of curiosity what would be the best way of doing it, I proberbly wont understand but its something i can look into.

Depending on the cost will might aim to do it the proper way
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I posted a diagram on the previous page, needs a router each side and an interlink between them being the obvious way, it would cost a little bit if you don't have spare boxes to install a linux firewall distro or something on. It would also require a reasonable understanding of networking, there's not an easy way unfortunately.
 
J.B said:
Bit off topic bigred but are you ever going to get your sig back, I like your fibre optical graphic thing you had
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Indeed, I keep meaning to dig a copy out, it was on an old hosting platform and I never got round to moving it to somewhere else...
 
His current plan isn't awful.

The only problem with your plan BRS is (The cost of) getting the gigabit appliances to separate the IP ranges. I think his current plan is fine if he doesn't mind only using one internet connection at a time.
 
bigredshark said:
I posted a diagram on the previous page, needs a router each side and an interlink between them being the obvious way, it would cost a little bit if you don't have spare boxes to install a linux firewall distro or something on. It would also require a reasonable understanding of networking, there's not an easy way unfortunately.
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My knowledge of networking is slim to none, this seems the easiest option for me, as i will or should be able to set all the ip's ect as long as i keep up with it.

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I can follow this method but i cant quite understand your diagram, and with my basic knowledge dont think i'll ever be able to configure it to work

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The first diagram is fine for the OPs needs.

If you really want DHCP at both sites you can do that, but it requires assigning a static IP to all other devices in the network (no biggie, imo). :)
When you connect wirelessly to the local access point at either site, it'll immediately dish out the DHCP IP from there.

The only down side from connecting through DHCP via wire may result in one person using the other persons internet connection.
 
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