[TriLUG] Build a Homebrew Linux Router?

Tue Jun 14 14:16:05 EDT 2016

pfSense supports this out of the box.

You simply create a "gateway group" and you can specify traffic as
fail-over, load balanced, round-robin, etc.

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Wesley S. Garrison
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Xitech Communications, Inc.
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> I recommend the Intel D2500CC boards:
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/272268378868
>>
>> Dual Gigabit Intel Ethernet and a decent Atom processor.
>>
>> For pfSense, I use the Intel Z-U130 Value SSD:
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/322054206200
>>
>> It is SLC flash that plugs into the USB header and uses 80mW.
>>
>> -Wes
>>
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>> Wesley S. Garrison
>> Network Engineer
>> Xitech Communications, Inc.
>> phone:  (919) 260-0803
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>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:36 PM, David Both via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 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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>> >>
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