Re: separating LANs?

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A multiport (as many as you need) firewall or router would do the trick. You
will need to configure ACLs to prevent the tenants networks from "seeing"
each other. I don't think any of the cheapos make a multiport that can do
ACL's, so you might have to spend a couple of bucks and get a real one.


<gglave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137090833.461048.86810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I look after a small LAN on for a small rural resort. They've got a
> handful of computers plugged into a Linksys BEFSR41
> (http://tinyurl.com/a99bl) router for network & internet connectivity.
>
> I'm looking for some way to set things up so that if this resort
> "shares" its internet connection with a few neighbours they can't "see"
> the other computers on the LAN, nor can the neighbours see each other's
> computers. The computers at the resort should still be able to see
> each other.
>
> Can anyone recommend a (hopefully inexpensive) piece of hardware to
> accomplish this? I know I could probably research some kind of a Linux
> box to manage the traffic, but I'd prefer to have some kind of small
> dedicated piece of equipment that doesn't risk a hard disk failure,
> power supply failure etc. as I'm six hours away and the folks at the
> resort are computer illiterate.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff Glave
> Vancouver, Canada
>


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