Subnetting on a home network for security

gigeorge

gigeorge

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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 said:
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.
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Don't need to subnet to do this. Simply virtual machines can be used for cutting out external traffic. A tick box does this for you.

PS use a calculator. http://www.subnet-calculator.com
 
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.
 
Caged said:
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.
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Thanks very much :)
 
Caged said:
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.
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^^Thats what I did. The edge router is brilliant!
 
The Ubiquti community forums are a really good resource if you get stuck. Ubiquiti staff are constantly dropping in to help people out. Lots of demo configurations on there as well.

If you get one upgrade it to 1.3.0 before setting anything up, the wizards in the new release make everything a lot easier.
 
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