3TeK Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 So a few friends of mine are trying to organize a QuakeCon-ish size lan party here in Wichita,KS. my question is, what would one do to go about setting up a router(or routers) for this? I was thinking about using a dual P3 with pfsense or RouterOS on it. any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 So a few friends of mine are trying to organize a QuakeCon-ish size lan party here in Wichita,KS. my question is, what would one do to go about setting up a router(or routers) for this? I was thinking about using a dual P3 with pfsense or RouterOS on it. any help would be greatly appreciated. You are going to need some pretty big switches. Also, Ideally you would also give each computer an internet IP address but firewall the common 'bad' ports. I know this is a total ass backwards way to do it, but who knows what ports any one wants to use. So, the best way is to catch the lowest hanging fruit (windows file sharing, messenger service etc) and hope it doesn't get too bad. Also ideally, each computer is on it's own VLAN, all the traffic is then routed to a big router (this would be a computer or two computers with a bunch of network cards, you could use actual routers, but computers are cheaper) which then applies the firewall rules and sends the traffic in the correct direction regardless if it is internal only or not. This will help prevent any people who try to intentionally infect computers. You could setup an IDS to black list mac addresses and what not, but this is more likely to throw loads of false positives than any thing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subl1m1nal Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Big ass switches. Big ass internet pipe. Big ass firewall. Big ass everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3TeK Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 well picking up some 80 port Cisco switches from ebay. Shooting wifi from our data center down the street 20mb up/down, Firewall is no prolem.. what about big ass computers? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 well picking up some 80 port Cisco switches from ebay. Shooting wifi from our data center down the street 20mb up/down, Firewall is no prolem.. what about big ass computers? lol Wireless... *cringe* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3TeK Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 its 2 Ubiquiti NS2's. its just gonna be the fail over/straight to my computer internet connection :-D its only 1/2 block away so not much interference. i think Cox is gonna try and run the main net connection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 What will you be using for a router? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3TeK Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 probably a dual p3 1.3ghz server with RouterOS or pfSense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 That'll do, I'm sure. I don't think one of those out-of-the-box Linksys ones could handle 1500 connections. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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