Small router for LAN segmenting...

[Faustino Dina]

Hi,

We are looking a cheaper way to segment our LAN than using a WindowsNT box
with two NICs. We bought a small broadband router, the Barricade but it is
so "well featured" that it fails in the basic: it does NAT on the internal
interface so the Windows 9x boxes that we attached to it can't login to the
Windows 2000 domain server (KB article 263293). There's no way to disable
NAT. Then I suppose it should be a similar box (even cheaper!) that just
makes routing between two 100MBs Ethernet NICs without any firewalling and
NAT capabilities, or at least you could disable NAT and firewalling. Looking
around on the net I've found hundreds of so called "broadband routers" on
the sub $100 price tag. Which one to test? I wonder if the "broadband"
preffix is synonymous of "NAT" so I fear to fail on the buying again...
Then
-Can you recommend me some small router for segmenting, no NAT, no
firewalling?
Any suggestion is wellcomed

Thanks in advance

 

[phn]

Hi,

We are looking a cheaper way to segment our LAN than using a WindowsNT box
with two NICs. We bought a small broadband router, the Barricade but it is
so "well featured" that it fails in the basic: it does NAT on the internal
interface so the Windows 9x boxes that we attached to it can't login to the
Windows 2000 domain server (KB article 263293). There's no way to disable
NAT. Then I suppose it should be a similar box (even cheaper!) that just
makes routing between two 100MBs Ethernet NICs without any firewalling and
NAT capabilities, or at least you could disable NAT and firewalling. Looking
around on the net I've found hundreds of so called "broadband routers" on
the sub $100 price tag. Which one to test? I wonder if the "broadband"
preffix is synonymous of "NAT" so I fear to fail on the buying again...
Then
-Can you recommend me some small router for segmenting, no NAT, no
firewalling?
Any suggestion is wellcomed

Any *BSD or Linux kernel dressed in a suitable pc enclosure.

( a 386 will do ! )

Thanks in advance

 

[EventHelix.com]

Did you try Netgear FS605 5-Port 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch.

It is a LAN switch (not a Hub).

I think it sells for less than $50.

Sandeep

 

[chris]

Hi,

We are looking a cheaper way to segment our LAN than using a WindowsNT box
with two NICs. We bought a small broadband router, the Barricade but it is
so "well featured" that it fails in the basic: it does NAT on the internal
interface so the Windows 9x boxes that we attached to it can't login to the
Windows 2000 domain server (KB article 263293). There's no way to disable
NAT. Then I suppose it should be a similar box (even cheaper!) that just
makes routing between two 100MBs Ethernet NICs without any firewalling and
NAT capabilities, or at least you could disable NAT and firewalling. Looking
around on the net I've found hundreds of so called "broadband routers" on
the sub $100 price tag. Which one to test? I wonder if the "broadband"
preffix is synonymous of "NAT" so I fear to fail on the buying again...
Then
-Can you recommend me some small router for segmenting, no NAT, no
firewalling?
Any suggestion is wellcomed

Thanks in advance

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You mention not needing
firewalling. A cheap switch will effectively segment traffic, but you
still have a larger broadcast domain than actually creating multiple
subnets. How many PCs are we talking about, btw?

As for cheaper, it sounds like you already have a W2K server and nics
are very cheap.

-Chris

 

[Chuck]

Faustino,

The Linksys BEFSR41 and BEFSX41 have a Dynamic Routing feature that
lets the router operate in Router Mode (as opposed to Gateway Mode
which provides NAT). Router Mode lets the router operate in a network
of routers, with another router acting as the NAT Gateway.

Cheers,

Chuck
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