Folks,

My grandson wants to host a minecraft server party for his boy scout troop and my daughter and I are wondering how to ensure that the existing machines on her home network are not compromised given that the members of the troop will be bringing their own machines and ethernet switches although some may be running wireless.

I was wondering if you could give us some thoughts on how to set up the network.  It is my understanding that the minecraft clients do need to get out to the internet to obtain a valid player name.  I had thought of setting up a seperate Router/Lan for the party, disconnecting the existing router/lan from the wan and connecting the minecraft router/lan to the wan for the duration of the party.

Any thoughts out there?

-David