Re: [44net] Making Gateways With Home Routers ?

Look what Marius posted yesterday. He has made a script for MikroTik routers that updates the configuration using the AMPR RIP transmissions! This is a very nice solution because it will receive all current routes automatically without requiring an external computer. MikroTik routers are very versatile. They can run user-written programs (scripts) to do things like this. I have a MikroTik RB2011UiAS-2HnD here, which would classify as a home router. It has 128MB RAM and 128MB flash which is more than enough for this purpose. I paid 125 euro for this nice box. They also exist in rackmount version, and we use these in our digital network. And they have a nice web interface that actually is usable also for advanced things. (contrary to some other manufacturers products where the web interface is only for rudimentary tasks and advanced things are only possible via the command line) I have no experience with the script that Marius posted yet, as I do not run IPIP here at home, I use IPsec VPN from the MikroTik to my Raspberry Pi in a datacenter which does IPIP. Notice that for best results (and less headaches) you need to put this router directly on a public IP, not behind a provider-supplied router that does NAT. Either put the provider router in transparent (bridge) mode or omit it completely. (depending on what connection you have) Rob