[Leaplist] Network topology to split WAN to two LANs

[Hank Lambert]

That's how my network is set up. The cable modem goes into the IPCop 
box, and that leads to 2 switches. I even have a Linksys cable router, 
but I am only using the switch side of it. My wireless router plugs 
directly into one of the switches. My printers are not network printers, 
but are being handled by a debian server and cups. All of this is on a 
single class C network.

The only time I had a segmented network was when I was taking Microsoft 
Server 2003 in school. I had to set up a MS server at home as a domain 
controller. Being I didn't want it interfering with the rest of my 
network, I divided it with a router and put the MS side on it's own 
network and it's own domain. Once I was done with that class, I took 
that network down. Instead of dividing my network with a router, I could 
have also divided the network with vlans as well (Cisco switch), but 
decided on the router for no real reason.

--Hank

Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2008 11:00:11 pm patrick wrote:
>   
>> First, there was a broadband modem, a single router, and two systems in
>> two rooms.
>>
>> Then, the Vonage modem had to be plugged in.  It is now first in line
>> out of the broadband modem, second is the 2 port router.
>>     
>
> I have a modem into an IPCop. That leads to a switch.
>
> That switch leads to three more switches in different parts of the house.
>
> On one of those switches is a wireless access port. On another is a network 
> printer.
>
> All on one subnet.
>
>