FBF 7170 - Routing on one interface - is it possible?

[skalita]

Hi everyone,

I know that FBF 7170 has only one eth interface and thus it is not possible now to have it running as a router behind a cable modem. But wouldn't it be possible to have this one interface alliased (eth0:1, eth0:2, ...) and have different subnets for every LAN 2-4 port. I've found several examples showing how to setup routing on one eth interface. With this approach we could have routing and NAT enabled in 7170. Am I right?

Regards,
Sebastian

 

[haveaniceday]

Hi Sebastian,

a partial usage might be possible with some firmware Modifikation.

Trouble with non fixed IP-addresses ( so dhcp ) might happen.
E.g a different device might claim the DHCP-Address instead Fritz.

AVM published a "bad" firmware ;-) which was able to use this.
But an update disabled the functions.

I expect the subnets would be able to see each other..

Havaniceday

 

[skalita]

Hi,

How about this situation: let's 'WLAN' be LAN interface and 'LAN 1' be WAN interface. Would it be possible to change settings and routes so that Traffic Shapping and NAT will be working as long as all PC's are connected via WLAN?

Regards,
Sebastian

 

[haveaniceday]

I expect just with some modification...
The firmware says in /etc/init.d/rc.init:
HW=94 OEM=all ATA=n ATA_FULL=n

So you need to learn about modifications.

Haveaniceday

 

[skalita]

Ok, thanks.

My new 7170 is on the way to me now. After some experiments I will write about the results.

Regards,
Sebastian