Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router

[Dave Oxley]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000
> Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router.
>>
>
> No can do.
>
My switch is a SGE2000P which is also a layer 3 router.
>
>> I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think that a
>> router is basically just a switch with a VLAN for the local network
>> and VLAN for the WAN. Is this assumption correct?
>>
>
>
> No, it is not. Those are two different pieces of equipment which work on
> different levels of the OSI model. For further assistance, please,
> describe clearly what kind of equipment is at your disposal and what
> (not how) you are trying to achieve.
>
The point of the exercise is to remove my 2 consumer grade routers from 
my network as neither were very good and I wanted to improve the 
security of my network. I actually got it sorted today but thanks for 
answering. In case anyones interested I've now got 3 VLAN's. 1 each for 
each of the Internet connections and 1 for the rest of the LAN. The 
Gentoo server is on all 3 and runs PPP with PPPoE to each of the 
'modems'. As a note it's interesting that PPPoE to 2 different devices 
conflict with each other but putting them on different VLAN's works 
brilliantly. When a PPP connection fails the ip-down script switches the 
default route to the ppp1 device and ip-up switches it back to ppp0; 
very smooth! I'm not using the L3 functionality of the switch as I was 
originally intending as the server does the routing.

Cheers,

Dave
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