Hi Gang,
I'm planning to use Untangle as part of a setup I'm hoping to accomplish at home. I've drawn a network map here.
My Goals are as folllows:
The donor box for Untangle is an Acer Revo R3610 (Dual Core 1.2GHz Atom, 2GB RAM) - it has on board ethernet and WLAN and I've added a Cisco USB Ethernet adaptor for the WAN interface.
My plan to begin this evening is to have Untangle installed, switch off any unnecessary services for performance (until I opt to add them back in later maybe) then configure the interfaces and OpenVPN Client for VPN connectivity. Then define either which hosts go over the VPN by source LAN IP, or by destination IP/hostname - whatever is possible. If it makes more performance sense non VPN traffic doesn't need to go via the Firewall at all. If that's more fuss than not doing that I'd be inclined not to complicate matters further :)
What I'm seeking from you lovely people is a recommended approach (or advice to not do it, if I'm coming at this from the wrong angle).
I'm planning to use Untangle as part of a setup I'm hoping to accomplish at home. I've drawn a network map here.
My Goals are as folllows:
- Wireless LAN with separate Guest Network (My Netgear router standard firmware provides this)
- Guest Wireless Network is entirely segregated from home LAN (again, provided by router) - this is for my downstairs neighbors
- LAN on one subnet, easy to manage and connect to all devices.
- Roku Media streamer device routed over VPN client running on Tangle
- Media server also running over same VPN connection (or it could run VPN client locally to save performance on Untangle box)
- Chromecast routed over VPN via WLAN
- (Bonus Points) Everything managed from Untangle interface - I read in the docs the Wireless AP could be essentially controlled by Untangle?
The donor box for Untangle is an Acer Revo R3610 (Dual Core 1.2GHz Atom, 2GB RAM) - it has on board ethernet and WLAN and I've added a Cisco USB Ethernet adaptor for the WAN interface.
My plan to begin this evening is to have Untangle installed, switch off any unnecessary services for performance (until I opt to add them back in later maybe) then configure the interfaces and OpenVPN Client for VPN connectivity. Then define either which hosts go over the VPN by source LAN IP, or by destination IP/hostname - whatever is possible. If it makes more performance sense non VPN traffic doesn't need to go via the Firewall at all. If that's more fuss than not doing that I'd be inclined not to complicate matters further :)
What I'm seeking from you lovely people is a recommended approach (or advice to not do it, if I'm coming at this from the wrong angle).