Virtual Things for isolation

Well, I was in search for blocking the client to client traffic for a while ago and I gave up.


One of the ISPs here does the following. DHCP assigns an IP and a gateway to the customer. But the gateway is virtual and is -1 of the users IP address. Its like

192.168.178.50 ----> clients IP address
192.168.178.49 ----> Virtual Gateway

Client only communicates with the 192.168.178.49 due to the /30 subnet. and the virtual gateway only communicates with the real router.

WAN Router -----> Virtual GW ------> Client

So the client gets completely isolated from the others.

Do you know how to implement such kind of networking environment or is there a manual for it for MT ?

Thanks

If someone can help us to achieve this scenario
It will be the optimum soluthin for too many problems for example:

  • client to client traffic.
  • MAC Spoofing.

Thanks
Adnan Ahmed

I asked about this long time ago… haven’t noticed that this is provided as option.

Well client to client traffic can easily* be managed via a wireless interface simply by disabling the intra communication option… as for wired networks, sad to say; a managed switched is required that has features like port security and more important vlans. example: Cisco catalyst 2900+ …



The latter is for obvious reasons … (layers)

Im not so much fam. with the virt. gateway proposal… but hey if isolation/security is that important to you, you can always use a direct tunneling protocol such as pppoe.

Regards.

Currently Im using Mt as a standalone AAA Server with hotspot enabled. AP is a ZCOMAX 1500HP. Do you say that If i use Routerboards as an AP, I can disable client to client traffic in the wireless environment ?

Create a chain of /30 pools, and have each pool refernce the next pool.
It would take forever to set up all the pools, but you could write a script to do it for you.

can u post an exemple of that script?