Hi,
I’ve come across Mikrotik/RouterOS while doing some research into a new networking setup for my home. I’m a fairly geekily geek with teenage children and what I’m looking for is not particularly well handled by standard products. I’ve been looking at gargoyle, but the lack of IPv6 as standard and hardware lag is a deal breaker.
Reading the wiki, I’m having trouble figuring out what possible in what configuration. I’m hoping that someone would be able to tell me whether that I want is possible and give me some recommendations on what I should get.
Here’s what I’m after:
- My existing setup uses a Billion modem/router, a Dlink managed switch and a Dlink WAP.
- I’m expecting Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) to arrive in my street, in it’s current more disappointing form, some time next year. After that, I won’t need a modem. What I’m planning to do in the interim is get a straight router and use the Billion device as a simple modem until it’s no longer needed.
- The original NBN provided a fibre connection and speeds of 100Mbs/40Mbs to begin with, possibly rising to 1000/400 later. With the change of government, that’s been downgraded to a minimum of 25/12 over copper with the possibility of upgrading to fibre at your own expense. I’d like to make allowance in the router to be able to handle at least 100Mbs without breaking a sweat. And, being optimistic, something that will handle on the order of 500Mbs+ would be good.
- I run my own domain name and servers for things like mail, web applications, mailing lists, etc. The main server is an OpenSuse system.
- Internally, I run things like DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, DLNA servers and so on. I use LDAP for configuration and user information.
- I run a dual IPv4/IPv6 network with external IPv6 visibility. A complete IPv6 setup including prefix delegation, DHCPv6 and a good, working firewall are necessities.
- Not everything inside (or outside) the house can handle IPv6, so IPv4 is supported with the usual NAT/port forwarding setup.
- I have the usual problems with data limits and teenage offspring. What I’d ideally like to do is give everybody a monthly download limit and let them manage it for themselves, rather than impose time limits or bandwidth limits. I’d like to tie any limits into the existing LDAP/RADIUS setup.
All suggestions gratefully received.