On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > So your advice for anyone contemplating ADSL would be an architecture > something like > > BT > | > | > DSL router/hub (such as Dlink) > | > Firewall box (eg cheap x86 running some sort of BSD or Linux) > | > Hub > / | \ > Stuff > > If the firewall box has (or can be fitted with) several internal interfaces, > is it a viable, cheap and secure system to also use it as a hub?
This could be quite a good idea for, eg, people who wanted to provide open wireless access - the wireless access device traffic can then be kept separate from the internal networks. This probably comes under the heading of 'Well, duh', but it's Friday afternoon, so I think I'm allowed some latitude. Ben
