26 May 08 Custom linux router, routing, split access and more..

So, now I have got this router set up and working, it was time to customize it somewhat.

In terms of networking, we have 3 10/100 ethernet ports and one wireless adapter, and this is set up as follows:

Internet comes in to eth1 and eth2, both of which have public IPs. eth0 which is another ethernet interface is bridged with ath0 which is my wireless interface (in master mode, with WPA-PSK/TKIP with hostap running) to form br-lan, whos IP is 192.168.100.1and is connected via a switch to feed the LAN PCs

I’m using a pretty simple netfilter masquerade script in use with this for NAT.
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Tags: bridge, ethernet, hostap, IP, load balance, multiple providers, router, split access, upnp, wireless, wpa

26 May 08 Custom linux router, the story..

I have two separate internet providers, two separate static ranges, one from each provider, and a LAN. The purpose of the exercise here was to split traffic between the two providers on an equal 50/50 basis.
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Tags: Linux, mikrotik, minipci, openwrt, picolcd, router, routerboard 532a, usb, wireless