Double NAT

I redesigned my home network the other day. Previously, I had two separate private networks. One wired network and a wireless network. Both networks were behind a Smoothwall Linux firewall running on my old PC. The wired network was directly behind the Smoothwall firewall while the wireless network was behind the wired network which means [...]

Smoothwall Firewall

It’s official. I am now using Smoothwall firewall at home. I made the switch yesterday afternoon. Now, I feel fairly secure about my home network. I have several systems at home running different flavors of Linux plus a laptop on a wireless network. Prior to the switch, I had a Netgear wireless router that acted [...]