Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router
Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. No can do. My switch is a SGE2000P which is also a layer 3 router. I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think that a router is basically just a switch with a VLAN for the local network and VLAN for the WAN. Is this assumption correct? No, it is not. Those are two different pieces of equipment which work on different levels of the OSI model. For further assistance, please, describe clearly what kind of equipment is at your disposal and what (not how) you are trying to achieve. The point of the exercise is to remove my 2 consumer grade routers from my network as neither were very good and I wanted to improve the security of my network. I actually got it sorted today but thanks for answering. In case anyones interested I've now got 3 VLAN's. 1 each for each of the Internet connections and 1 for the rest of the LAN. The Gentoo server is on all 3 and runs PPP with PPPoE to each of the 'modems'. As a note it's interesting that PPPoE to 2 different devices conflict with each other but putting them on different VLAN's works brilliantly. When a PPP connection fails the ip-down script switches the default route to the ppp1 device and ip-up switches it back to ppp0; very smooth! I'm not using the L3 functionality of the switch as I was originally intending as the server does the routing. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. No can do. I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think that a router is basically just a switch with a VLAN for the local network and VLAN for the WAN. Is this assumption correct? No, it is not. Those are two different pieces of equipment which work on different levels of the OSI model. For further assistance, please, describe clearly what kind of equipment is at your disposal and what (not how) you are trying to achieve. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Replacing my router
I have 2 Internet connections, 1 fast ADSL and 1 slow wireless as a backup. My router doesn't do automatic failover or even have support for multiple WAN connections so I thought I'd set up PPP connections on my Gentoo server that do PPPoE to the 2 modems which I connected directly to my switch. This worked well but I soon realised that my server was offering up DHCP IP addresses to machines on the otherside of my wireless connection! So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think that a router is basically just a switch with a VLAN for the local network and VLAN for the WAN. Is this assumption correct? If so I will setup 2 VLAN's on my switch (a Linksys SGE2000). Also how can I setup the NIC on my server to be connected to both VLAN's and only do DHCP for the local VLAN? Should I be able to or need to prevent one VLAN from seeing the second VLAN? What is STR and do I need to set this up? Any other suggestions? Cheers, Dave. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
