[GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| You might want a guest VLAN/SSID.  I have my firewall configured so that the
| only thing a guest can do on my network is ping the guest VLAN interface. 
| Beyond that, they can only access the Internet.  I even point them to Google's
| DNS server, instead of mine.

Good point.

It turns out that I could give guests the password for the Bell GigaHub
WiFi.  That's isolated from my LAN. In fact, I think that the GigaHub
has a separate password for guests.

More to your point, it may be convenient for your router to have more than 
two ethernet ports.  Giles' box only has two, yours and mine have four.
(Giles's box sure is cute.)

Common wisdom has it that USB ethernet dongles are not always stable 24/7.