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| - | ====== Network Configuration for the Home Router ====== | ||
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| - | As i already described in the [[selfhost: | ||
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| - | Additionally, | ||
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| - | I assume you have two ISPs, let's call them **FastISP** and **ReliableISP**. If you have only one ISP, just ignore anything related to the second one. I will also assume that you are renting / have access to two separate static IP's on the internet that will be your public facing access. Two for resilience: if you have only one, that's fine. | ||
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| - | You will be handling the following // | ||
| - | * Internal network: 10.0.0.0/24 - all home devices will connect to this network | ||
| - | * FastISP network: 192.168.1.0/ | ||
| - | * ReliableISP network 192.168.0.0/ | ||
| - | * Main external host: static IP 99.99.99.99 | ||
| - | * Secondary external host: static IP 75.75.75.75 | ||
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| - | The two external servers should ideally be on different networks, but that is not mandatory. | ||
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| - | Your internal server will act as home router and provide DHCP and DNS services to any device inside your home. | ||
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| - | Your server will then require three network connections. I suggest them to be three wired ethernet, but you can also use one WiFi device. Since most computers come with one single ethernet (sometimes nowadays not even that), i found useful to purchase USB ethernet cards to. I suggest you don't cheap out on brand and prefer USB-C ones to get good quality hardware, which is critical when going USB. | ||
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| - | So, the internal server interfaces will be: | ||
| - | * LAN: with static IP 10.0.0.1 | ||
| - | * FastISP on WAN1: with static IP 192.168.1.10 | ||
| - | * ReliableISP on WAN2: with static IP 192.168.0.10 | ||
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| - | Use all static IPs for the internal server, it will save you lost of headache and will allow the use of SNAT which is faster than MASQUERADING. | ||
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| - | ====== Gentoo Network Configuration ====== | ||
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| - | For a full static network setup you don't need to go fancy and stock Gentoo network configuration is pretty easy and straightforward. If you need to support WiFi / WAP or other stuff, please refer to the Gentoo Handbook network section. | ||
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| - | First of all you need to find out the names of your ethernet devices, these can be found under **/ | ||
| - | <file - net> | ||
| - | # LAN on enp0s31f6 | ||
| - | config_enp0s31f6=" | ||
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| - | # FastISP on enp59s0u2u4c2 | ||
| - | config_enp59s0u2u4c2=" | ||
| - | routes_enp59s0u2u4c2=" | ||
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| - | # ReliableISP on enp0s20f0u4u4c2 | ||
| - | config_enp0s20f0u5u3=" | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | this assumes that your **default route** will go trough FastISP. You will be able to change this later on with a neat script, even on the fly. | ||
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| - | Now, create the needed symlinks and start the networks: | ||
| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | > for i in enp0s31f6 enp59s0u2u4c2 enp0s20f0u4u4c2 | ||
| - | > do | ||
| - | > ln -s / | ||
| - | > rc-upate add net.$i default | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | Now you need to tell Gentoo that only **one** of these needs to be up for networking to be ready. If you don't do this, then all your services will fail as soon as one goes down. Edit the file **/ | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | rc_depend_strict=" | ||
| - | </ | ||