- daisychaining routers
- Posted by Tim Downie on March 28th, 2006
I've just got a new router/modem (Belkin Pre-n) which has WPA encryption
which is fine. The only problem is that my wireless Sqeezebox1 music
streaming device doesn't. I still have the old router and I understand that
I could connect this up and use it to communicate with my Sqeezebox.
Is it just a case of daisy chaining the two routers and how do I ensure that
I'm not degrading the security of my whole system by putting an old router
with just WEP encrption back into the system. The old router would be used
solely for connecting the Sqeezebox.
Tim
- Posted by David Wade on March 28th, 2006
"Tim Downie" <timdownie2003@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:48tocoFleaiiU1@individual.net...
You can't. . Once you go down to WEP you have opened the system. You could
lock the MAC address but cloneing a MAC address is not too tricky...
- Posted by Tim Downie on March 28th, 2006
David Wade wrote:
Probably beyond me but is there no way of configuring the firewall so that
the only data that could be hacked into was the streamed audio? (Forgive me
if this is a stupid question but my knowledge of routers and firewalls is
pretty limited).
Tim
- Posted by Rob Walker on March 28th, 2006
"Tim Downie" <timdownie2003@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:48tpibFlsm5fU1@individual.net...
Yes it can. Take a look here: http://www.grc.com/nat/nat.htm
It's not exactly your situation but might give you some ideas.
Rob
- Posted by Mark McIntyre on March 29th, 2006
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:53:14 +0100, in uk.telecom.broadband , "Tim
Downie" <timdownie2003@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
What you could do is get a /third/ router, and attach the WEP-only
router to its WAN port. It would then be 'outside' the firewall in
the 3rd router's firewall, and you could configure the router to allow
only certain ports.
Mark McIntyre
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- Posted by Tim Downie on March 29th, 2006
Mark McIntyre wrote:
Getting way too complicated for me. ;-) I suspect I'll just hard-wire the
damn thing in. A lot simpler & more secure if not so neat or elegant.
Tim
