I have setup a X86 system with 2 PCI NICs and a 4 port serial card.. At this time have configured one card as WAN and another as LAN. I configured DHCP on the LAN and can now connect to the internet through this router. What I want to to do with this box:
1.) Configure the box as PPP server for dial in users.
2.) Use it it as a bandwidth controller for the network.
3.) Configure PPPOE server to issue IP addresses instead of the DHCP server.
Pls advise how to do these. I have read the WIKI, but maybe I am getting to much info that I am confused as to what to do.
Okay. I can now connect to the PPPOE server from my WinXP client. I cannot however connect to the internet. I had configured the firewall on the LAN interface. I also noted that the NIC on my notebook does not get an IP address( there is a 169.x.x.x). Once connected the PPP connection get an IP address from the pool configured on the PPOE server. Am I missing something.
If the address is assigned to your computer and you can ping router from the computer.
Make sure /ip firewall nat action=masquerade out-interface=PUBLIC_interface_name chain=srcnat is added to your router.
Okay. Just getting back to this system. I am now able to connect to the internet through the PPPOE connection on my notebook. The problem was that I had “out-interface=LAN” in the firewall. How does this work? I though that the NIC in the notebook was the one that going to get an IP address, but it is the PPPOE connection that obtained the IP address. The NIC has an automatic private IP address.
Now, how do I control the bandwidth for users? Can I create different profiles with different bandwidth limits, and then assign those profiles to users?