Network Setup – Modem, Debian Server, D-link DIR-655 Router, Windows Computers?
I’m looking to setup a network with the following configuration:
A Speedtouch 512 Modem that connects to a phone line.
A server running Debian Linux that connects via lan to modem using PPPoE.
A D-Link DIR-655 Wireless-N 4-Port (1 WAN) Router
To this router, various windows computers connect wirelessly and over ethernet.
I know that I can connect this modem as an access point if I don’t use the WAN port. Though, can I use the WAN and have the router do its own routing within a designated subnet and still be part of the same network as the debian server? Or would I be able to setup two separate networks? I’m looking to make use of the WAN port without using one of the LAN ports to connect to the debian server. The router doesn’t have an access point setting to convert the WAN port to a LAN port.
You can use either set-up … although both would be one physical network, and one or two virtual networks. Or one network and two ranges of sub-net addresses.
For safety you might want one sub-net for the modem, and another for the devices and the router, with only the router exposed directly to the modem. That way you’d ensure only internal addresses for all of your hardware, save the modem which can be protected using its own firewall. I’d set the server and router with fixed IP, and use dhcp for everything else on separate subnets.
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