ok so im obviously in college because of the title. i want to setup a dorm room network beccuase i have a desktop, laptop and 2 servers, an xbox, soon to have an xbox 360 and a HTPC. now my school states specifically no dorm lans, but i say f them and im going to do it anyway, they also said no filing sharing and in one month my freshman year over a terrabyte of information went out to the general school network. i need to order parts from the egg in order to get one of the servers back up and running so ordering a new nic isnt a problem. now i have a dell unmanaged 16 port switch and right now its interfacing nicely with my lappy, server, and desktop allowing me inter net acces and the like.
ok heres the question. i want to shield my little home network from the schools prying IT eyes. i have to interface with the schools network through my desktop using xp. they require us to use xp so i cant setup a default linux box to act as my gateway. can i dump a new nic into my desktop and have it interface between the two networks and shield one from the other? how easy is it to configure two? i have never done that before. i really dont want the school at large to have access to the file servers, and i really dont need anything else to have tremendous amounts of speedy access to the net if any at all.
i hope thats enough info, if you need anything else ill post it as i see it.
cheers
ok heres the question. i want to shield my little home network from the schools prying IT eyes. i have to interface with the schools network through my desktop using xp. they require us to use xp so i cant setup a default linux box to act as my gateway. can i dump a new nic into my desktop and have it interface between the two networks and shield one from the other? how easy is it to configure two? i have never done that before. i really dont want the school at large to have access to the file servers, and i really dont need anything else to have tremendous amounts of speedy access to the net if any at all.
i hope thats enough info, if you need anything else ill post it as i see it.
cheers