[LUNI] Sharing Wifi

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Francis Healy wrote:

> Michael Labowicz <mlabowicz at gmail.com> wrote:  On 11/16/06, Samir Faci wrote:
>
>> use a linux box and dump 3 nicks on it. Wan, Lan, and dmz. then
>> just write an iptables script to block any incoming connection from
>> dmz net to lan.
>>
>> We could probably help you better given more details.
>>
>>
> I understand the WAN and the LAN, what does the DMZ do?

You would put any servers you want exposed to the internet into your DMZ. 
That way, people could hit your public web server, for example, while your 
laptop and workstations are safely behind the firewall.