Ok, lots of good stuff... IPCop may be out just because of only having 3 networks available, and I need 4. Or at least it will be in place before everything else as we will want certain things blocked as at least the wireless portion will be set up as an internet cafe type of deal (it would not be good for little Johnny to be trying to find out what pr0n means).I think there is a mod to add more interfaces to IPCop, but I'm trying to keep it simple. >If security is your concern, you want to take the switch out of the equation (unless it's a smart/managed switch) and add more interfaces to the IPCop router (one for each of the 4 places that need to be kept separated). You will then assign different subnets to each of these, and set up rules in the firewall about what can happen between them. Security is a major concern. Glad I wasn't too far off with thinking it could be done with the subnets. > I agree with this setup using a managed switch. I am thinking this may be the way to go. > You know, super super cheap solution is a WRT54GS running I like that idea and I have WRT54G2 that I am using here at home,unfortunately I forgot the password so I'll have to wait until I have more time to look at that. This would be ideal but there are only 3 wired ports after the uplink is used and the place we will want the wireless is probably too far away to be used this way. Thanks, I'm sure I'll have more questions later. -- "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." -Thomas Paine <>< -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090629/0c889c26/attachment.htm