[Nottingham] A strange network switch: Does a 'concentrator'/'mux' network switch exist? - "port isolation"

[Martin]

On 17/08/16 23:07, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 17 August 2016 at 20:47, Aaron Jackson via Nottingham
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
> wrote:
> 
>     BTW, it is worth mentioning that many wireless access points, including
>     domestic, often have a feature called "AP Isolation". This allows all
>     wireless devices to talk to any wired devices, but not with other
>     wireless devices.
> 
> Yup. It's often just a simple checkbox these days, although the iptable
> rules are not hard to find.
> 
> I /think/ some Microtik routers might be able to do what you want,
> Martin. Might be an idea to noise-up Andy Fletcher on the LBW list.
> I may be misremembering though.


Thanks all, good comment.

Great shame we haven't greater bandwidth for WiFi or something broadband
spread-spectrum so that we could do away with all these pesky cumbersome
wires... Then again, the encryption and signal processing could well
require a very un-green extra power station if widely used!


The main motivation is to keep multiple devices guaranteed separate on a
wired network to thwart at least one malware vector, and also to FORCE
file sharing to be possible only by means of a central server.

Doing that without the need for VLANs looks very nicely plausible ;-)


Thanks,
Martin



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