the firestarter firewall has this built in, and so would be verry easy to use<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On 1 September 2010 10:07, Jon Spriggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@spriggs.org.uk">jon@spriggs.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">On 1 September 2010 09:29, Cornelius Mostert<br> <div class="im"><<a href="mailto:corneliusmostert@googlemail.com">corneliusmostert@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi<br>> 1 thing that no one mentioned as yet that might be obvious is the Subnet<br>> Mask.<br> > I have a similar setup but are using 2 routers and I found that the DHCP<br>> router needs to tell the clients that:<br>> 1. The Default Gateway should be the router connected to the Internet<br>> 2. Subnet Mask for the clients must be 255.255.0.0<br> <br></div>Subnet mask needs to be the same for all the machines on the network.<br>Typically on a home network, the subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0<br>(known as a /24 or 24 bit network), and this will provide enough scope<br> for 254 hosts on your network (including your router). The subnet mask<br>you've specified would give you 65534 hosts - many many more hosts<br>than a home network would ever need, and to be honest, more hosts than<br> most corporate networks need!<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs<br></font> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5"><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>