"Steven L Umbach" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> If your ISP can provide at least two IP addresses, then you can connect
the
> modem to a cheap switch and then connect a NAT router for each network to
> the switch and use one public IP for one network and the other public IP
for
> the other network. Another possibility is to use a switch that can do port
> isolation such as the HP Procurve 2512 which can be purchased used on Ebay
The simplest thing there is to just split the switch into "two switches"
with VLANs. Many switches are VLAN capable. I did this in a situtation where
I had machines in a particular part of a building where half the machines
were inside our private system and half were on the public side of the
system, but I only had one switch to use. I just create two VLANs on the
switch and plugged each "half" into the proper network, then plugged the
machines each into their proper "half" of the switch.
It has been done away with since then, but worked fine at the time.
--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com