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<blockquote data-quote="Amnesia" data-source="post: 1106088" data-attributes="member: 92847">***I&#039;m kind of outdated in the world of network security, but I do have some non-security networking knowledge, please help figure out if the way I set up my things is secured or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&#039;t need it), and It&#039;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...[ATTACH=full]285954[/ATTACH]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&#039;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 &quot;new&quot; firewall is a network inside of that network and it&#039;s 192.168.10.1(192.168.1.1 is the next hop ip).[ATTACH=full]285956[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]285955[/ATTACH]I don&#039;t know, it sounds kinda stupid to me like- I created a physical VLAN of some sort(the sh1tty ISP router won&#039;t let me configure VLANs ) but in my logic since the outdated firewall is inside my home network AND PLEASE FOR G-D SAKES CORRECT ME IF I&#039;M WRONG it SHOULD make my network kinda safer if I&#039;ll configure the firewall rightly.... right...?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amnesia, post: 1106088, member: 92847"] ***I'm kind of outdated in the world of network security, but I do have some non-security networking knowledge, please help figure out if the way I set up my things is secured or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... [ATTACH type="full" width="757px" alt="20ff4f02.jpg"]285954[/ATTACH] 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.[B]1[/B].1 while my "new" firewall is a network inside of that network and it's 192.168.[B]10[/B].1(192.168.1.1 is the next hop ip). [ATTACH type="full" width="789px"]285956[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="715px" alt="Photos_pgcXaR5BeW.jpg"]285955[/ATTACH] 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...? [/QUOTE]

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