I’ve got a Routerboard 411 and before I try to re-invent the wheel… I had a few questions. I originally bought this with the intent of using it as a simple wireless access point, however my needs have changed and I am trying to turn it into a full fledged router.
In a nutshell, here is what I am trying to accomplish:
- I currently have it hooked up to a small 5 port Linksys switch with a cable modem that assigns it’s address via DHCP, the RB411 and cable modem are both plugged into the switch respectively, as well as 1 client for testing.
- I set eth1 as a DHCP client and it pulls the address from my provider as expected
- I created a virtual ethernet interface and assigned a non-routable 10.x.x.x address to it which will be the basis of my intended LAN, complete with DHCP server, NAT, etc.
Is it possible to do what I am wanting to do with this in this scenario? Or am I better off getting say an RB750 and using dedicated ports? I’d like to do it with this if possible (as I don’t want to spend any more money if I can help it!)
I got as far as setting up the main ethernet port, but I can’t ping the virtual ethernet port from a client computer. For example, I setup my MacBook with an IP of 10.15.242.2, with a gateway of 10.15.242.1 for a quick test.