Introduction

I have been working to set up a Soekris net5501 to act as a home router/server. My efforts are documented here. Note that this guide only covers software setup and so should be applicable to nearly any hardware.

Under construction. I hope to get this finished eventually.

If you know of a better place in the wiki for this to go, please suggest it in the ?Comments section.

Contents

Requirements

Here is a list of requirements with links to the relevant sections.

Document Conventions

Basic Networking

Internal network is all bridged to one subnet 192.168.68.0/24. Notice the wlan0 port is bridged also; otherwise it could have it's own section similar to br0.

/etc/network/interfaces:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface (WAN)
auto eth0
#allow-hotplug eth0 # hotplugging does not seem to work reliably
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# Network bridge (LAN)
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
  address 192.168.68.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 192.168.68.0
  broadcast 192.168.68.255
  bridge_ports eth1 eth2 eth3 wlan0
iface br0 inet6 static
  address (from sixxs)
  netmask 64

# Public wireless network
auto wlan0_0
iface wlan0_0 inet static
  address 192.168.67.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 192.168.67.0
  broadcast 192.168.67.255
iface wlan0_0 inet6 static
  address (from sixxs)
  netmask 64


Set up /etc/hosts to make local DNS work correctly:

Change this line:

127.0.1.1      hostname.example.org hostname

To:

192.168.68.1    hostname.example.org hostname2.example2.org hostname

Test: make sure both hostname -s and hostname -f work correctly now.

dnsmasq

dnsmasq.conf... TODO

Firewall

iptables & ip6tables... TODO

UPnP

upnpd.conf... TODO

hostap

hostapd.conf... TODO

IPv6

6to4 versus Teredo... TODO

6to4

Public IPv4 address... TODO

Teredo

miredo... TODO

Traffic Control

script... TODO

Comments

Feedback is appreciated.