Re: NAT and sharing my broadband advice wanted.

["big_red_frog" <anthony.tod@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for reply.

Presently I have removed my neighbour from my network, as I have had=20
a closer look at their machine and it was riddled.

I have managed to clean it up mostly with AVG, adaware and spybot,=20
but I have an issue I can=F8't seem to tie down.

It keeps resetting the homepage to thenewsearch.com at every reboot,=20
as well as peppering this into the registry in lots of places, can't=20
seem to track it down, or find anything on this particular varient on=20
the net to help!

Until I can lock that down he is off the airwaves!

Anyway, I was thinking further, I am happy to lock my wireless to=20
internet access only, as my hardwired network is coming up to speed=20
now, (new build house) but I am not sure I can do even that.

If I am using a USB adaptor at his end for the wireless, will it even=20
have a MAC address?

Yours, confused, Tony.

It gets worse, my work place has just swapped project platforms, and=20
everything is going linux, do I have to grow a beard now?

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Andy Laurence" <andy@a...> wrote:
> big_red_frog wrote:
> > I have a broadband connection on a actiontec wireless ADSL/router
> >
> > However, I want to lock him out of any of my PC's on my NAT=20
network,
> > and I don't want to be able to see his machine either.
> >
> > What sort of mechanism am I looking to configure on the router to
> > achieve this?
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> IME, these wireless routers have no ability to segregate parts of=20
the
> wireless network.  I've not used this particular model, so I=20
couldn't
> guarantee.  However, I think it's pretty safe to say it won't=20
support VLANs
> on the wireless interface.  The only ways round your issue I can=20
think of
> are:
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> 1. Lock your machines down.  Install a firewall, turn off the server
> service, and anything else providing a service to your network.
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> 2. Install another access point for people other than yourself,=20
firewalled
> from your main network.  This can be left wide open, but lock your=20
router's
> wireless interface to MAC address, turn on WEP, etc.
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> Cheers,
> Andy
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