Home Network

[ntaylor]

Hi all

Next month i will be doing a home network at home. Basically i need some help on designing the home network and i was either thinking of having server with 2 NICS, one NIC going to ADSL Modem and bridging it and the other NIC going to a hub to link the rest of the LAN and the server doing routing,DNS,Apache,NFS,SSH,etc.

Can anyone please give me some more advise please

Thanks

Nigel

Oh yeah keep the Howtos going they are great.

[sjau]

how many ports does the adsl modem have?

[ntaylor]

how many ports does the adsl modem have?

it has 4 ports and is wireless, its just that i want more control over the network thats why i am thinking of bridging. But i have also heard that bridging is not that good for some reason. this is what i was going to do

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| Internet |
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|
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| ADSL Modem |
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|
|
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| Server/Gateway |
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|
|
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| Hub |
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|
|
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| Workstation |
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But what i was thinking of getting another computer and splitting the Server/Gateway, so it will be Gateway/firewall then to hub then the server will come off the hub with the workstations.

What do you guys think? sorry abit rough

[sjau]

it's doable but you really want that? If you can replace the firmware of your router with openwrt or ddwrt it's already much better IMHO.