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

[Mike Brodbelt]

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.

Not necessarily - just get a switch that supports 802.1q and put your
firewall on a trunked port. You can easily set up two separate VLANs on
the switch such that hosts on one VLAN can communicate with hosts on the
other only via the firewall.

Mike
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