Multihomed proxy serving 2 wireless networks

[Kevin Plew]

I've thought of that- DHCP on the routers doesn't handle the number of
clients I have very well. I wanted my FC2 box to handle that as well. That
being said it maybe my only solution.

Thanks
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:06 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Kevin Plew wrote:
>> > The FC2 box is not acting as a router. I don't want all packets to go
>> > through eth0 due to the load on the wireless router. The reason I want
>> to
>> > route through the 2 interfaces is to reduce the total load on each
>> router.
>>
>> Right, I see. So the FC2 server is just a file/print/DNS/DHCP etc.
>> server?
>>
>> So clients of 192.168.1.0/24 should be using 192.168.1.1 as their
>> router/gateway and clients of 192.168.100.0/24 should be using
>> 192.168.100.1 as their router/gateway. Since both of your wireless
>> routers have interfaces on the 10.x.x.x network, they should be able to
>> reach 10.10.11.50 without any additional routes. The only additional
>> route entry you need is one via either eth0 or eth1 for the FC2 server
>> itself. They key would seem to be to set up the DHCP server to assign
>> the correct router to each network's clients.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Kevin,
>
> Since your server is not acting as a router, why not move it to the
> switch between the Satellite broadband device and the Linksys routers.
> A single interface into the network should be sufficient to serve your 2
> Wireless subnets and you would only need one route out of the server.
>
> Network diagram:
>                Proxy Server
>            ----10.10.11.50-----
>                     |
>                     |
>                     |
>           Satellite Broadband Gateway
>       ---------10.11.57.1----------
>                     |
>                     |
>       -----------Switch--------------------------------
>        |                     |                     |
>        |                     |                     |
>    10.11.57.2              10.11.57.3          server FC2
>     Linksys wrt54g         Linksys wrt54g      10.11.57.4
>   wireless router        wireless router
>   --192.168.1.1--      ---192.168.100.1-----
>         |                    |
>         |                    |
>   192.168.1.0/24----   ----192.168.100.0/24----
>
> Let the Linksys routers provide DHCP for the clients and they would also
> be the clients' default routers.  The Linksys routers probably act as
> caching DNS servers as well.
>
> Bob...
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