Using openSUSE as a network gateway

Why trying to avoid ranting about my Linksys router, I’ll try and keep things short. I have a Linksys router in which the default firmware was terrible and would not correctly renew its DHCP lease. After getting feed up with that I flashed dd-wrt on the router and now it works better but randomly DNS queries would stop being resolved. To rule out the chances that it is my ISPs DNS servers I switched my DNS to openDNS, same problem happens (although I have to admit openDNS is a lot better than what my ISP has).

Anyways I’m about feed up with it and about an inch away from drop kicking the thing out my window. To avoid that I figured I will give it one more change and instead of using my Linksys as my network gateway I’ll move all of that to my home server, and make the Linksys just an wireless AP. Besides setting up DHCP, DNS, and iptables on the server is there anything else I will need to know and setup on the server to make this work?

Side note anyone using openSUSE for DHCP know if setting up reserved IPs for certain MAC address is possible?

vendion wrote:

> Side note anyone using openSUSE for DHCP know if setting up reserved
> IPs for certain MAC address is possible?

Yes it is.


Per Jessen, Zürich (26.1°C)
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Pjessen

This works like a charm for me with openSUSE 11.2. Your server needs 2 NIC’s, one for the connection to the outside world and another one pointing at the LAN. The setup needs some careful tuning of the SuSEfirewall2. Just go ahead and whenever you got stuck come back here and ask. Do as much configuration as you can with yast, before you hack the config files.