[TriLUG] Build a Homebrew Linux Router?

Tue Jun 14 14:13:36 EDT 2016

I wonder if anyone has played with bonding with a home-based router?  I
tried to set something up years ago but all traffic went out on one
external interface. I was hoping to get some sort of round-robin use of two
external internet connections.

Cheers,
Tim

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

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>
> Dual Gigabit Intel Ethernet and a decent Atom processor.
>
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:36 PM, David Both via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
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> > I do not find performance to be an issue in my environment. I have two
> > Raspberry Pi's I am using as router/firewall combos. One is a 2B and the
> > other is a 3B. My home office network is not very large, but I do have
> > large file transfers pretty regularly, including multi-GB ISO images. The
> > limiting factor for me is the 15Mb down and 2Gb up of my TWBC
> connection. I
> > notice no difference in transfer times from when I was using a tower PC
> > with dual Gb NICs for my router/firewalls. In addition to my casual
> > observations, have used speedtest-cli to verify this with repeatable and
> > measurable observations.
> >
> > Now when I convert to Google Fiber, I will have to do something else in
> > order to utilize the full bandwidth. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/14/2016 12:21 PM, Michael Marley via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> >> Just as a word of caution, RasPis tend to make pretty awful routers.
> >> This is mainly due to the fact that the Ethernet chip is a 100Mbps
> >> device attached to USB2 and any additional Ethernet devices must also
> >> attach to the same USB2 bus.  On at least the RasPi 1 and 2, this bus is
> >> additionally limited to about 60Mbps of total bandwidth.  Combine this
> >> with the fact that the Internet traffic must both enter and leave the
> >> device across the USB interface and these limitations make it an
> >> acceptable router only for extremely slow Internet connections.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> On 2016-06-14 11:54, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:
> >>
> >> I wonder if we could tie in "homebrew router" into July 14 RPi Talks?
> >>>
> >>> This would be ideal because we are planning a hack day RPi install fest
> >>> at
> >>> SplatSpace afterwards. It would be a good time to make homebrew RPi
> >>> routers.
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