Subnetting on a home network for security

[gigeorge]

Id like to subnet my home network and would like some advise on how i can best go about it. I understand the router/switch would be quite expensive and ideally id have a Gbit switch to do it with.

I am doing this soley as an experiment, for tinkering around and because i want to make my machines more secure from mitm and other network nastys when my mates come over for lan sessions.

 

[gigeorge]

Get an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite and make multiple networks and tag them to VLANS, then you can play around with having things in a DMZ still firewalled off from the rest of your network, give guests access to the internet and your internal servers but not (for example) printers etc. Very easy to learn GUI and a powerful CLI (Vyatta fork) if you want to get stuck in.

Thanks very much

 

[gigeorge]

Brilliant stuff, i ordered mine last night only 80 inc delivery !