Ray Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking at setting up a neighbourhood isp and have 2 questions
>
> 1) If you had every customers computer in the same room, all connected up
> to the same wired network, how would you stop each computer being able to
> talk to each other. Eg. 192.168.1.1 (server) can talk to everyone and
> everyone can talk to 192.168.1.1 but we dont want 192.168.1.2 (jack)
> talking to 192.168.1.3 (Jill)
>
> I have seen this done before by a local telco and a DSL gaming network
> where you would temporarily change your dsl username and password and you
> got full speed access to the game network servers, but couldnt talk to /
> ping / etc the person you were playing against directly without going
> through the game server.
>
>
> 2) Anyone know of a good piece internet connection sharing software that
> supports a fair few users - to make it proffessional quality, has qos /
> bandwidth limiting, monthly data quotas and a web interface so users can
> preferably see their quota usage, has a vpn server so users can vpn
> directly to it and not have to authenticate via http, and has upnp etc.
> I am trialing kerio winroute firewall but the quotas dont seem to be all
> that accurate, and users can start up bit torrent or msn messenger and it
> automatically works for them without authenticating, and not going against
> their quotas. Where as it seems to start counting when they open ie and
> login through the web interface.
> Preferably windows based too.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> Ray Taylor
Ray;
Don't know if this will 100% address your questions but one or more of the
features may do just that. Take a look at
www.netopia.com and look at
their wifi hot-spot software utilities. This software doles out IP's via
dhcp and as it is designed to work in a "public" place I cannot imaging it
would allow cross talk and/or snooping. Might be worth a look.
Bob
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