Router

Just built a pfsense router on  a pc engine to replace my aging 7390 fritzbox…. Very very awesome and fast!

Perfect for UFB (ultra fast broadband) here in New Zealand - FTTH has arrived :)

I’m currently running these services on it (2 x 1GHZ cpu, 4GB RAM, 16GB msata SSD);

• dhcpd - DHCP server
• miniupnpd - UPnP server
• ntpd - NTP server
• squid - Transparent Proxy & Reverse Proxy
• snort - IDS (Intrusion Detection System) / IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
• ssd - SSH server
• unbound - DNS Server
• ipsec - IPsec VPN (site to site VPN)
• openvpn - Open VPN (client VPN)

Check these links for some great advise…

To show what routes your cisco router currently has loaded type the following command (from the enable prompt) ;

show ip route

To add any new static routes you need to use the following command (from the config terminal prompt) ;

ip route 10.10.20.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1

the syntax as above is ip route network netmask gateway

Telnet to your cisco router, enable then go into config t. Passwords may be required depending on how it has been configured…

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config t

Ensure that ip routing has been enabled…

ip routing

To create the VLAN adapter you’ll need to run the following commands to create a “router on a stick”…   Note: the .2 after the interface name creates a virtual adapter on the interface.

interface FastEthernet1/1.2 description “VM Host Network” encapsulation dot1Q 2 ip address 172.25.2.1 255.255.255.0

This is quite a handy app for creating small virtual routers. See the website for more detail… The commandline is similar to cisco - so its good for practice if you are going for your CCNA.

http://www.vyatta.com/products/virtualized.php

Oh - its open source and free!

I’m a bit lazy in most cases and just add a few virtual nics into my VM’s and do the routing though them. But some people may find this handy for a single point to manage networking.