Super input! Since nobody is showin' the love for Microtik, I just pulled the trigger on the $20 D-Link Dir 615. I will install dd-wrt on it and have a go.
For the rest of the functionality it Looks like I'm going to need something a bit more powerful. I have two NIC's on my main server at home which is a virtualization platform. I'll make a new VM with two NIC's and then install a router-like OS on it that will give me some of the functionality I'm looking for. And since each is already a linux distro, I could crawl in there and do what I want if it hasn't been done already. I've looked at ClearOS<http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/downloads.html>and Untangled <http://www.untangle.com/store/get-untangle/>. Both look nice, but a brief bout of research shows that untangled has more functionality out of the box. FYI ClearOS seems to be built on top of CentOS and Untangled built on top of Debian ("Lenny"). If you've had experience with either of these, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks, Al On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 21:02:51 Al Jachimiak wrote: > > Ok. I guess it would be helpful to share what I'm trying to do! :-) > > > > Minimum goal: Make a second WLAN for a guest network (think waiting room) > > that has access to the Internet, but is isolated from all resources on my > > current home network. > > > > Secondary goal: Have the ability to throttle traffic on that secondary > > network. Limiting each connection or, at the very least, the total > > bandwidth would be nice so the primary network doesn't get slowed by a > > guest camping out on YouTube or Netflix. > > Basically what I think you're looking for here is called "QoS" -- Quality > of > Service. A router that's running some form of Linux often has this feature > via rules made via 'tc' from iproute2. There are also lots of QoS types, > but > the one I personally use is HTB -- "Hirearchical Token Bucket": > > http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm > > If I remember correctly I think WRT and/or DD-WRT can do some QoS rules > (and > in fact these look much simpler to use than manual HTB rules with tc are): > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6859 > > > > At the same time, I'm in total agreement with Dragorn that this is > something I > normally do in the _router_ and avoid doing on an AP, if I can help it. If > the AP and the router happen to be the _same box_ then obviously the QoS > rules > have to be done on the AP. > > > Bonus: Have the ability to track or log sites and then maybe block or > slow > > traffic to those sites (perhaps even dynamically...). > > Likewise I'd want to do this on the router if I could help it. > > ... > > I'm leaning towards the d-link with dd-wrt, but does it have the > bandwidth > > limiting functions? How about logging and tracking? > > You'll have to look into it to double-check, but my understaning is that > dd-wrt can do simple QoS rules such as bandwidth limiting. Not sure about > logging and tracking, but IIRC I think it's possible to have dd-wrt log to > an > external syslog server for things like this. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Aug 7 - Scripting Your World with Python > Sep 4 - NoSQL and MongoDB > Oct 2 - OpenFlow: Open Standard for Networking Hardware >
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