[ILUG] Office Router

[Michael Watterson]

Peter Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
>>
>> A specialised distro might be better than ubuntu for this?
>> http://www.fsckin.com/2007/11/14/7-different-linuxbsd-firewalls-reviewed/ 
>>
>
> I see a couple of people use ClarkConnect. Anyone using it with two 
> WAN interfaces? Thats the main thing I need, something that can direct 
> certain traffic to either of the WAN interfaces.
>
> I like the look of pfSense (WARNING! NOT LINUX :)). But it it seems to 
> only allow one WAN connection. Maybe someone can tell me otherwise?
>
> Smoothwall looks nice too, anyone running it with two WAN interfaces?
I looked at how to have 2 x WAN on OpenWRT on Linksys 54G3G. There is an 
almost  howto to recyle one of the ethernet ports as a 2nd WAN, the 
firewall/iptables part should be relevant. 
http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=50152
In the OpenWRT and 4 port switch + 1 Wan port on Linksys is smoke  &  
mirrors.  you  could  even have  4 WAN ports and  1  LAN, as the  five 
ports appear to be on same  HW and  it uses  VLANs for  LAN/WAN  
partitioning and  an  internal bridge br0

You can use instead of 3G PCMCIA modem an ethernet card, wifi card or 
other kind of WAN modem in the Linksys WRT54G3G.
http://www.wattystuff.net/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Linksys+WRT54G3G

It's rather easy to run out of Flash or RAM on the Linksys though. I 
have a Netgear MBR814X and a Dlink DIR451, but I havn't succeeded in 
loading OpenWRT on those yet. The Netgear is also a MIPS core and the 
Dlink an x86 core. The Dlink has USB host as well as Cardbus/PCMCIA.

I've been meaning to stick a 3rd card in my Clarkconnect and stick the 
satellite modem on it as a quick backup route.

If I couldn't figure it out I was going to cheat and install a 2nd copy 
of Clarkconnect on a VM on the same box. :-)

-- 
Mike