Hi Michael, Good questions...
First, EXT2IF works with either static or DHCP to set the IP address. EXT2IP="" uses DHCP. No direct web interface support, so it must be defined in user.conf Network -> "Advanced Configuration" area. If EXT2IF is defined it is automatically added as an external interface for the firewall, though the default route would have to change to utilize it. Keep in mind that using EXT2IF is somewhat uncommon (I presume) for our users, but that would be the proper way to add a parallel failover. I have wrestled with the idea for a failover for my home/office connection... I have a DOCSIS 3 cable modem and the only other alternative is DSL (PPPoE) or LTE wireless, the added costs for true failover did not make economic sense for me, so I pay more of Business Internet Service (Cox Communications) using DOCSIS 3 which includes a SLA. I have not regretted that decision. As an alternative for a failover, years ago I purchased a little WiFi-client, Netgear WNCE2001 N300 http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Universal-Ethernet-Adapter-WNCE2001/dp/B003KPBRRW/ This little device acts as an ethernet to WiFi-client bridge, so together with a 4G wireless LTE MiFi or tethered device with WiFi you could simply replace the EXTIF with the Netgear N300/LTE pair and temporarily re-establish the connection, assuming the previous connection was DHCP and not counting on static IP addresses. Regardless, Asterisk my require a reload to cope with the changed IP path. Best to have the WiFi-client bridge pre-configured so it is immediately available when needed. Here in the US, LTE is very expensive for bandwidth, around $10 per 1 GB of data, so without monitoring this could be very expensive as a broadband replacement. Personally with an iPad with LTE, if the primary internet should go down I still have a good backup, and can even enable WiFi tethering to my MacBook if I wish. As such, my iPad w/LTE is my failover plan. Lonnie On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Michael Knill wrote: > Hi group > > I am looking at setting up a backup 4G/LTE connection for a customer (and > provide it as a product offering) and just wondering the best way to provide > it in Astlinux. > The 4G router can support bridge mode so ideally I would like to have dual > PPPoE connections but I don’t think this is easily done in Astlinux? I am > happy (and would prefer) to manually switch the routing over to a backup > connection. > > Currently Astlinux’s EXT2IF requires a static address which would mean double > NAT for me (I assume) as I would need to route rather than bridge on both > firewall external interfaces. Should this be a problem? Could I disable NAT > but do IP Tables on Astlinux and do NAT on a router? If I have a good enough > router (who can you trust?), I could just turn off the Astlinux firewall and > make it a telephony server and router only? > > I was thinking that worst case, I could put the 4G router on the DMZ or > internal network and just change the default route on Astlinux to point to it > on failover. > > Any ideas? > > Regards > Michael Knill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
