[Gllug] Old small laptop firewall option? Or just send it to the recycling centre?

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon Oct 30 19:08:14 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:33:27PM +0000, Neil de Carteret wrote:
> On 30/10/06, Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> wrote:
> >FWIW, you don't really need a second network card.  You can run the two 
> >networks on the same switch.  If they are distinct subnets, it should be 
> >secure.
> 
> If you do that, then any host on the switch can communicate with any
> other host.  So don't do that.

This is, regrettably, how some common ADSL routers work.

Rich.

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