Thanks for the info. Yes usb to ethernet adaptor are cheaper, and I do have some at home..
Also been playing with vlan on a programmable 24 port switch that I use on a repeater site to provide internet by wifi to a few user on site. (all ham radio stuff)
I have access to a 4 port gigabyte pcie card that work on openwrt. I want to use 1 port for the ampnet Gateway and the 3 other and the one of the 2 onboard nic for a few vlan.
The problem is that I have absolutely no idea how I could add the ampnet Gateway sftware in the machine.
Like I said memory and hard drive space is not a problem since I run it on a pc that have 2 gig or ram and 32 gig of hard disk for the OS ( and 1 tb for a small file server on my lan)
Was looking at the software database for openwrt, and amprnet dont seem to be available as a package.. Looks like I will have to compile it
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________________________________ De : 44Net 44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com@mailman.ampr.org de la part de Toussaint OTTAVI t.ottavi@bc-109.com Envoyé : Monday, April 16, 2018 12:09:27 PM À : 44net@mailman.ampr.org Objet : Re: [44net] Openwrt x86
Hi,
Le 14/04/2018 à 16:29, pete M a écrit :
I was wondering if it would be possible to have a 3rd nic (pcie) that could be use as the apmrnet gateway to hamprnet for my allocation.
USB NIC may be cheaper and more versatile than PCIe when performance is not an issue. AFAIK there's no up-to-date list of supported USB NICs for OpenWRT. But Realtek RTL8153 chipset is known to work well ($10-$15 on Amazon)
Another approach is to use VLANs. This requires a VLAN-capable switch. You can split a "physical" Ethernet interface in several "virtual" networks, each of them appearing as a separate network card with its own IP on your OpenWRT router. On your switch, you can tag (=affect) any Ethernet port to any of your virtual networks. It requires some time and practice to understand how it works, but it's a very versatile solution for managing and isolating several networks. F/ex ,at home, I have 4 VLANs : professional, family, home automation/IOT, HAM
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