Device to segment LANs?

Hi Everyone,

I look after a small LAN on for a small rural resort. They've got a
handful of computers plugged into a Linksys BEFSR41
(http://tinyurl.com/a99bl) router for network & internet connectivity.

I'm looking for some way to set things up so that if this resort
"shares" its internet connection with a few neighbours they can't "see"
the other computers on the LAN, nor can the neighbours see each other's
computers. The computers at the resort should still be able to see
each other.

Can anyone recommend a (hopefully inexpensive) piece of hardware to
accomplish this? I know I could probably research some kind of a Linux
box to manage the traffic, but I'd prefer to have some kind of small
dedicated piece of equipment that doesn't risk a hard disk failure,
power supply failure etc. as I'm six hours away and the folks at the
resort are computer illiterate.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I look after a small LAN on for a small rural resort. They've got a
> handful of computers plugged into a Linksys BEFSR41
> (http://tinyurl.com/a99bl) router for network & internet connectivity.
>
> I'm looking for some way to set things up so that if this resort
> "shares" its internet connection with a few neighbours they can't "see"
> the other computers on the LAN, nor can the neighbours see each other's
> computers. The computers at the resort should still be able to see
> each other.

You can simply put other Linksys or other routers behind a single master
router. This will segment the individual lans out for each slave router.
Each slave router would also have to have different internal IP address
(lan A could have 192.168.1.x, lan B could have 192.168.2.x, etc.), and
they should all be different from the master router's lan. That's all I
can suggest, and be warned putting a NAT router behind a NAT router has
a history of heartache. Usually nothing seems to work out like expected.

Yousuf Khan

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