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I'm thinking of creating a proper home network and using a single machine dedicated to access control, centralised authentication, DHCP and acting as a proxy for internet access via a separate home router. Currently all my machines connect to the router direct via power line networking.
Would there be performance issues associated with putting a proxy such as this in between my home computers and the router or would they be negligible (as in just one more hop)?
Also if there's any massive caveats that I should be aware of let me know.
cheers. Sorry for the incorrect terminology - router was what I meant, I'm not planning on packet inspection or anything like that so a low level forwarding service is what I want. And yeah like my existing router I will setup a whitelist of allowed services and deny everything else. – rutherford – 2012-01-29T02:06:15.387
Ah, okay :) I added a few notes on performance in light of your clarification. – Caleb – 2012-01-29T16:39:08.770