Building your very own Ubuntu Server from Scratch is as great way to get a grasp at how things work under the hood, not to mention you’ll end up with a router that does what it is told to do and nothing more.<\/p>\n
I’m going to assume you have a working WAN side connection and are able to access the Internet.<\/p>\n
The interface mapping is:<\/p>\n
eth0 -> LAN side\r\neth1 -> WAN side<\/pre>\nEnable PACKET Forwarding<\/h4>\n
Edit \/etc\/sysctl.conf<\/strong> and uncomment (or add) the following line:<\/p>\n
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1<\/code><\/p>\nSo far, so good!<\/p>\n
Setting up IPTABLES<\/h4>\n
The heart of every router is the firewall and in our case, this means we have deal with iptables<\/strong>. The good part is that it does exactly what we tell it to do. Create \/etc\/iptables.rules<\/strong> and add the following to it:<\/p>\n
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE\r\niptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -m state -\u2013state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT\r\niptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT<\/pre>\nAnd now modify the \/etc\/network\/interfaces<\/strong> file as follows:<\/p>\n
iface eth0 inet static\r\n address 192.168.1.1\r\n netmask 255.255.255.0\r\n network 192.168.1.0\r\n broadcast 192.168.1.255\r\n post-up iptables-restore < \/etc\/iptables.rules<\/pre>\nWhich will cause the networking to refresh the iptables config every time the interface comes online. Neat!<\/p>\n
Setting up DHCP<\/h4>\n
Install the package that handles the DHCP service using this command:<\/p>\n
apt-get install isc-dhcp-server bind9<\/code><\/p>\nAfter which the first thing is to bind DHCP to an interface (or multiple ones, at that). Look up \/etc\/default\/isc-dhcp-server<\/b> and modify it so that it contains your network interface (preferably the LAN side, if we are talking about homo\/SOHO usage):<\/p>\n
INTERFACES=\"eth0\"<\/pre>\nBe extra sure to assign a static IP address to this interface<\/strong><\/p>\n
Next up is the DHCP config itself, which contains the networks and the IP scopes as well: \/etc\/dhcp\/dhcpd.conf<\/b><\/p>\n
ddns-update-style none;\r\ndefault-lease-time 600;\r\nmax-lease-time 7200;\r\nauthoritative;\r\nlog-facility local7;\r\noption subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;\r\noption broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;\r\noption routers 192.168.1.1;\r\noption domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;\r\noption domain-name \"ubuntu.router\";\r\n\r\nsubnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {\r\n range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.230;\r\n}<\/pre>\nNow we need to restart the service so the changes would take effect:<\/p>\n
\/etc\/init.d\/isc-dhcp-server restart<\/code><\/p>\nYou should be able to browse the Internet with any connected DHCP client.<\/p>\n
Do not forget to harden the security<\/strong> of your shiny new router!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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