Quake3World

I have a router now and Im wondering if I connected my incoming connection [cable] to this router and then hooked this router to another one and then to my computers, if that would give me an extra layer of protection or wouild it just be a waste of time.

Im thinking that someone COULD possibley get to my router and as most are 192.168.0.1 or something close, going through another router would make it very hard to get through.

And once you hook up your cable connection to the router, the router takes over the IP addy. Your one computer would be something like 192.168.1.100 and the next might be 192.168.1.101

FragaGeddon wrote:And once you hook up your cable connection to the router, the router takes over the IP addy. Your one computer would be something like 192.168.1.100 and the next might be 192.168.1.101

you still have a WAN ip that is assigned by your ISP. regardless of that, i think that having dual routers is a waste of money. make your WAN unpingable, hardcode your ip address within your lan, and don't be forwarding any ports you don't need.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

FragaGeddon wrote:And once you hook up your cable connection to the router, the router takes over the IP addy. Your one computer would be something like 192.168.1.100 and the next might be 192.168.1.101

you still have a WAN ip that is assigned by your ISP. regardless of that, i think that having dual routers is a waste of money. make your WAN unpingable, hardcode your ip address within your lan, and don't be forwarding any ports you don't need.

I was kinda replying to this part:

corpse wrote:Im thinking that someone COULD possibley get to my router and as most are 192.168.0.1 or something close, going through another router would make it very hard to get through.

Thanks for the posts.

How do you make your WAN unpingable?

usually there is a setting under the Admin portion that says not to accept Pings on WAN side..

AmIdYfReAk wrote:usually there is a setting under the Admin portion that says not to accept Pings on WAN side..

Hmm "Block WAN Request" in my router settings

It was on by default...

Duhard wrote:

AmIdYfReAk wrote:usually there is a setting under the Admin portion that says not to accept Pings on WAN side..

Hmm "Block WAN Request" in my router settings

It was on by default...

yar. alot are not on by default, and most people don't think to check, or like you, had no idea that was even an option.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:yar. alot are not on by default, and most people don't think to check, or like you, had no idea that was even an option.

hehe I had no idea my private network was ungayable