Network setup for new apartment

[Dan87951]

I just moved into a apartment in which they provide the internet for free. They have a proxy server for the internet and a DHCP that provides the IP's for all the users on the network. The network is poorly secure and would like to secure my apartment from there LAN. Is it possible to run my own NAT using there provided internet connection? I would need a router with 2 ethernet ports I'm assuming, one ethernet interface will be the outside IP address and the other will be the inside ip address or the NAT side of things. Is it possible to do this? I was thinking a cisco 2621 with 2 ethernet ports could do this or possibly my 2620 and get another ethernet card for it.

Thanks

 

[mrdenny]

Any standard home cable/dsl router can handle this for you. They all provide NAT. Just make sure that you use a different IP space and the complex provides, othwise you could end up with some funky routing problems.

I've done a setup like this with a Linksys and it worked fine.

Denny
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[smah]

mrdenny is exactly right. The area where you might have problems is with any direct communications services. The 'double NAT'ting' could cause problems with IM services, VPN, Remote Desktop and similar.