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My LAN is made up of wirelLss and cable connected workstations which
connect through a WLAN router/switch
(D-Link DI-614+) and an DSl-modem to the Internet.
Now I want to add a wireless IDS-workstation immediately after the
router in order to scan the whole WAN
traffic for possible hack attacks which have passed the router's
firewall. Obviously I have to replace my
router/switch by a simple router to get access to all WAN packages
before they are being switched to their
destination workstations. Then I need to replicate the packages by
means of a hub, and connect to it the
IDS-workstation amd a switch for the other workstations. So a rough
configuration would look like
DSL-modem --- router --- hub --- switch --- LAN
'
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IDS-Workstation
There are some open questions for me:
1. Where to connect the wireless workstations to? E. g. if I connect
them to the router, do I see their WAN
traffic on the IDS-workstation?
2. How to connect the IDS-workstation to the hub? To normal hubs you
connect via cable to one of its ports. So
do I have to connect an access point to the hub and the IDS-workstation
to that access point?
3, I must invest in a router and a hub, But can I make use of my
existing WLAN router/switch, either as pure
switch for the LAN or access point for the IDS-workstation?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Best regards
Eckhardt Newger
My LAN is made up of wirelLss and cable connected workstations which
connect through a WLAN router/switch
(D-Link DI-614+) and an DSl-modem to the Internet.
Now I want to add a wireless IDS-workstation immediately after the
router in order to scan the whole WAN
traffic for possible hack attacks which have passed the router's
firewall. Obviously I have to replace my
router/switch by a simple router to get access to all WAN packages
before they are being switched to their
destination workstations. Then I need to replicate the packages by
means of a hub, and connect to it the
IDS-workstation amd a switch for the other workstations. So a rough
configuration would look like
DSL-modem --- router --- hub --- switch --- LAN
'
'
IDS-Workstation
There are some open questions for me:
1. Where to connect the wireless workstations to? E. g. if I connect
them to the router, do I see their WAN
traffic on the IDS-workstation?
2. How to connect the IDS-workstation to the hub? To normal hubs you
connect via cable to one of its ports. So
do I have to connect an access point to the hub and the IDS-workstation
to that access point?
3, I must invest in a router and a hub, But can I make use of my
existing WLAN router/switch, either as pure
switch for the LAN or access point for the IDS-workstation?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Best regards
Eckhardt Newger
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