I have an interesting and possibly hopeless situation I'm looking for some insight on.
There are two apartments in the house I live in - I live in one, my landlord lives in the other. He provides free Internet, but we share his router: cable comes into the house to the modem, goes to a router, one line runs to his computer, the other runs down to my apartment. I have a proliant that has a few servers virtualized on it, and I have an older PC I'd like to throw Untangle or IPCop on, just to have a firewall box play around with. Here is how I see the flow in my head:
Internet -> Landlord's Router -> Switch in my apartment -> Firewall Box -> Virtualized server farm
Is this even possible? I know connecting routers to routers is a bitch and become super problematic if you don't set up DHCP and other settings correctly, and I'm no guru. I've been trying to search for answers in situations similar to mine but so far have been unsuccessful. Thanks for any advice.
There are two apartments in the house I live in - I live in one, my landlord lives in the other. He provides free Internet, but we share his router: cable comes into the house to the modem, goes to a router, one line runs to his computer, the other runs down to my apartment. I have a proliant that has a few servers virtualized on it, and I have an older PC I'd like to throw Untangle or IPCop on, just to have a firewall box play around with. Here is how I see the flow in my head:
Internet -> Landlord's Router -> Switch in my apartment -> Firewall Box -> Virtualized server farm
Is this even possible? I know connecting routers to routers is a bitch and become super problematic if you don't set up DHCP and other settings correctly, and I'm no guru. I've been trying to search for answers in situations similar to mine but so far have been unsuccessful. Thanks for any advice.