tlgalenson
New Around Here
I have a Belkin WiFi router that I was using as an Access Point. It was hooked through a multi-port 10/100/1000 box to an ATT Dsl single port router (2Wire) that has a firewall, dhcp, nat, etc.
The Belkin/AP is setup with WPA2 and a long encrypted password and a shorter "guest" encypted password. The guest password allows access to the internet but doesn't allow printing/filesharing.
It occurred to me that the WiFi/AP doesn't have any kind of firewall. So if someone cracked my WiFi/WPA2 and logged on then there is only my pc's software firewalls to protect them.
So I got going and discovered something called "router cascading" on the Belkin website, which if I am reading it correctly, the Belkin article has you perform by 1) setting the IP address of the 2nd router to something besides the primary router/gateway 2) Disabling the DCHP on the 2nd router 3) plugging the primary router LAN directly into the 2nd router LAN port (not the WAN port).
So it now looks like the Belkin router which is basically my WiFi box now has a Firewall/NAT between it and the WiFi side of things. And my hardwire connections are now Firewalled on both the WiFi and the WAN sides of things.
So the last questions are: 1) Do I now really have a router-based firewall all the way around my home office setup? 2) Am I letting my drive-by paranoia getting the better of me?
Tom M.
The Belkin/AP is setup with WPA2 and a long encrypted password and a shorter "guest" encypted password. The guest password allows access to the internet but doesn't allow printing/filesharing.
It occurred to me that the WiFi/AP doesn't have any kind of firewall. So if someone cracked my WiFi/WPA2 and logged on then there is only my pc's software firewalls to protect them.
So I got going and discovered something called "router cascading" on the Belkin website, which if I am reading it correctly, the Belkin article has you perform by 1) setting the IP address of the 2nd router to something besides the primary router/gateway 2) Disabling the DCHP on the 2nd router 3) plugging the primary router LAN directly into the 2nd router LAN port (not the WAN port).
So it now looks like the Belkin router which is basically my WiFi box now has a Firewall/NAT between it and the WiFi side of things. And my hardwire connections are now Firewalled on both the WiFi and the WAN sides of things.
So the last questions are: 1) Do I now really have a router-based firewall all the way around my home office setup? 2) Am I letting my drive-by paranoia getting the better of me?
Tom M.