- Aug 23, 2021
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***I'm kind of outdated in the world of network security, but I do have some non-security networking knowledge, please help figure out if the way I set up my things is secured or doing more damage than benefit.***
So finally I got my first physical firewall for free(the local City hall didn't need it), and It's a Check Point Safe@Office 500 a more than a decade old firewall hardware with amazing speeds of a whooping 100MB/s HELL YEAH! It became my new favorite toy for the last week or so...
The Internet in my house is kinda trash, so I have no problem using it with that speed limitation, but it is an old, discontinued, unsupported piece of equipment so I figured out that I shouldn't use it as my main router exposed to the whole world.
What I did is to connect my main router(a lame default ISP one) to my firewall WAN port so they are two different networks my main router is 192.168.1.1 while my "new" firewall is a network inside of that network and it's 192.168.10.1(192.168.1.1 is the next hop ip).
I don't know, it sounds kinda stupid to me like- I created a physical VLAN of some sort(the sh1tty ISP router won't let me configure VLANs ) but in my logic since the outdated firewall is inside my home network AND PLEASE FOR G-D SAKES CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG it SHOULD make my network kinda safer if I'll configure the firewall rightly.... right...?
So finally I got my first physical firewall for free(the local City hall didn't need it), and It's a Check Point Safe@Office 500 a more than a decade old firewall hardware with amazing speeds of a whooping 100MB/s HELL YEAH! It became my new favorite toy for the last week or so...
The Internet in my house is kinda trash, so I have no problem using it with that speed limitation, but it is an old, discontinued, unsupported piece of equipment so I figured out that I shouldn't use it as my main router exposed to the whole world.
What I did is to connect my main router(a lame default ISP one) to my firewall WAN port so they are two different networks my main router is 192.168.1.1 while my "new" firewall is a network inside of that network and it's 192.168.10.1(192.168.1.1 is the next hop ip).
I don't know, it sounds kinda stupid to me like- I created a physical VLAN of some sort(the sh1tty ISP router won't let me configure VLANs ) but in my logic since the outdated firewall is inside my home network AND PLEASE FOR G-D SAKES CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG it SHOULD make my network kinda safer if I'll configure the firewall rightly.... right...?
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