{"id":171,"date":"2008-11-22T23:28:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohanjith.net\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-12-20T05:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T05:37:32","slug":"going-multi-uplink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/going-multi-uplink.html","title":{"rendered":"Going multi uplink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I got a 2nd connection for my home-office. Now I have 1Mbit\/s WiMAX uplink from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dialog.lk\/en\/broadband\/products\/homenetplus.html\">Dialog Broadband<\/a> and 512Kbit\/s (Soon will be upgraded to 1Mbit\/s) WiMAX uplink from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankabell.net\/home_broadband.html\">Lanka Bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have setup one of my old PCs as the router. I couldn&#8217;t find a single router with multi-uplink here in Sri Lanka, but PC router is more flexible, IMO. I&#8217;m running <a href=\"http:\/\/debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a> on the router and using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorewall.net\/\">Shoreline Firewall<\/a> aka Shorewall for firewalling and traffic shaping\/control. It took a good few hours to setup mainly because I mixed up the ethernet interfaces \ud83d\ude00 . Shorewall documentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorewall.net\/MultiISP.html\">multiple internet connections<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorewall.net\/traffic_shaping.htm\">traffic shaping\/control<\/a> by Tom Eastep helped me a lot in setting up my router.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-like\" style=\"\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/going-multi-uplink.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=300&amp;action=like&amp;font=&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;locale=en_US\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:30px\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I got a 2nd connection for my home-office. Now I have 1Mbit\/s WiMAX uplink from Dialog Broadband and 512Kbit\/s (Soon will be upgraded to 1Mbit\/s) WiMAX uplink from Lanka Bell. I have setup one of my old PCs as the router. I couldn&#8217;t find a single router with multi-uplink here in Sri Lanka, &#8230; <a title=\"Going multi uplink\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/going-multi-uplink.html\" aria-label=\"More on Going multi uplink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,138,137,48,26,136],"tags":[392,449,448,360,338,447],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-dialog","category-firewall","category-lanka-bell","category-linux","category-shorewall","tag-debian","tag-dialog","tag-firewall","tag-lanka-bell","tag-linux","tag-shorewall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lUHm-2L","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}