- 1. Setting up an Ubuntu Wired/Wireless Router
- 1.2. Scripted wired:wired router
- 1.3. Network Manager
- 1.3.1. Typical Example
- 1.3.1.1. Quick and Dirty
- 1.4. Technical Overview
- 2. Prerequisites
- 2.1. Internet Connection
- 2.2. Router Hardware
- 2.2.1. Use your desktop PC
- 2.2.2. Dedicated Hardware
- 2.2.3. Terminology
- 3. Internal Network Information
- 4. Setting Up Your Network Interfaces
- 4.1. Device Naming Overview
- 4.2. Taking a Backup
- 4.3. Configuring the External Network Interface
- 4.3.1. Setting up External Network Interface
- 4.3.1.1. For Dynamic IP Addresses (DHCP) Only
- 4.3.1.2. For PPPoE connection with dynamic IP address only
- 4.3.1.3. For Static IP Address Only
- 4.3.2. Testing Connectivity
- 4.4. Configuring the Internal Network Interfaces
- 4.4.1. Wired Only
- 4.4.2. Wireless Only
- 4.4.3. Both Wired and Wireless
- 4.5. Enable IP forwarding and Masquerading
- 5. Firewall
- 6. DHCP and DNS
1. Setting up an Ubuntu Wired/Wireless Router
This article is intended for intermediate and advanced users who would like to set up an Ubuntu installation acting as a router at home or in their office. The end result is a powerful router that can provide functionality similar to popular products (for example, the Linksys WRT54G).
1.2. Scripted wired:wired router
I (user id Snake_Byte) created a python script a while back that sets up a wired router for you given some basic info (check the readme).
Tested on Karmic and Lucid, let me know if you have any problems. I want to start a GUI project to make this simpler, and incorporate wireless features if anyone is interested, we can get a repo going.
[Note added: The script included in this page at the link below assumes different addresses than on the rest of the page and MUST BE EDITED to replace the assumed IP address and range for your private network, and to remover the examples, before use. Furthermore, for recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu, the assumed dhcp3-server must be replaced by a more modern server, such as isc-dhcp-server, and all references to dhcp3 and dhcp3 should be replaced by just dhcp once you do so. Thus you should LOOK OVER ALL OF THE CONTENTS of the directory tree after unpacking the tar file — so not just blindly execute it before doing so.]
1.3. Network Manager
This tool is perfect for simple networking problems, especially for laptop users. It is not appropriate for setting up a router, even though it does have a very basic internet connection sharing capability.
1.3.1. Typical Example
Home Office
Some of these devices should be able to communicate with each other, some should be allowed to communicate with the internet. Some are wired, and some are wireless. With this guide, your PC can share the internet over additional network interfaces, such as wireless cards and ethernet cards.
1.3.1.1. Quick and Dirty
If you would like to try to do the same thing the ‘quick and dirty’ way, see EasyRouter, a much quicker method with much less flexibility.
1.4. Technical Overview
The router that will be created is an Internet gateway for wired and/or wireless clients to share an internet connection with one IP address.
- routing of packets from your local networks to the internet, with IP_masquerading
- handling DNS requests
- providing IP addresses to devices on your local networks (DHCP)
2. Prerequisites
2.1. Internet Connection
This is not strictly necessary, but is probably the reason you are following this article. You can set up a router in an isolated network using these instructions, but you will likely have specialist requirements, and need to make changes.
2.2. Router Hardware
2.2.1. Use your desktop PC
If you have a recent PC, bought in the last two years, it probably has enough horsepower to run all your normal applications and act as a router at the same time.
2.2.2. Dedicated Hardware
You’ll need a dedicated computer to act as the router. The computer can use old hardware and having the minimum requirements to install Ubuntu should suffice. The author of this article runs his router on a P3 600mhz processor with 256MB of RAM. You are encouraged use this as a server for other applications perhaps by installing postfix, apache, mysql, and/or samba. This guide recommends a server installation of Ubuntu, but there’s no reason why a desktop installation wouldn’t work. If you plan to be able to access the router remotely, install ssh before proceeding.
- A network adapter
- For a wired network,
- Another network adapter, typically an ethernet port on a motherboard, or PCI card.
- A wireless network adapter
- Ideally it should be able run in «master» mode, although «ad-hoc» mode might be good enough. Cards and chipsets which can work in master mode (otherwise known as access point or ap mode), are listed at the Linux Wireless Project.
- sudo ip link set dev down && sudo iwconfig mode master should not return an error; but some cards take extra commands to set master mode. mac80211 compatible drivers can run cards in master mode. Pay careful attention to what hardware you buy.
- If your wireless network adapter is not recognized by your server installation of Ubuntu, it may use the madwifi chipset (like the D-Link DWL-G520). Please visit Router/Madwifi for more information.
Running ip addr will show you what network interfaces are available.
2.2.3. Terminology
interface is used to mean the operating system’s name for a place which sends or receives data packets. It is often, but not necessarily, the same as a device. An interface may have several devices associated (e.g. a bridge), or a single device may have several interfaces. device will refer here to the bit of hardware dealing with your network connections.
3. Internal Network Information
Here are the values we’ll use to set up your internal network. Advanced users use caution when changing them as the changes will need to be reflected in all further router configuration.
Firstly, discover the IP address of your internet-connected interface. If you are plugged into a business or academic LAN, this is very likely to be given by:
ip addr show eth0
For a home broadband user, it may be a ppp interface; and a wireless user could have any number of interface names, such as ethX, wlanX, athX, where X is a digit.
Be aware that it is important to use different numbers below to the one given to your internet device. This is probably the case already, but if you are not directly connected to the internet, you may be on a LAN with the same address range. If you already have a broadband router, for example, it might have given you the 192.168.0.2 address, and kept 192.168.0.1 for itself. If so, change the third digit (0) to another number (and do so throughout the rest of this tutorial).
4. Setting Up Your Network Interfaces
4.1. Device Naming Overview
It is important to note that the names of the network interfaces above ( eth0 , eth1 , and wlan0 ) are used as convention. It is very likely that your router will recognize its devices under different names (for example, madwifi calls its wireless device ath0 ). Please substitute the names of your device accordingly. For information about how to change the names of your network devices, try man iftab.
4.2. Taking a Backup
sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.bak
4.3. Configuring the External Network Interface
4.3.1. Setting up External Network Interface
Here, we configure the Ubuntu networking system to bring the the local loopback and external network interfaces up by editing /etc/networking/interfaces. The primary goal here is to set up your external network interface ( eth0 , or whatever you’re using in place of it) to be brought up by the networking subsystem. The examples below are only for the most basic setups. If your setup requires additional configuration, for example you need to setup ADSL with PPPoE, adapt the following examples so that the end result is your external network interface connected to the Internet.
4.3.1.1. For Dynamic IP Addresses (DHCP) Only
# Set up the local loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # Set up the external interface # # Don't forget to change eth0 to the proper name of the external # interface if applicable. # auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
4.3.1.2. For PPPoE connection with dynamic IP address only
4.3.1.3. For Static IP Address Only
# Set up the local loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # Set up the External interface # # For every xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, enter the numeric address given to you # by your Internet provider. Don't forget to change eth0 to the proper # name of the external interface if applicable. # auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
You can visit the Ubuntu Server Guide — Network Configuration documentation for more information
4.3.2. Testing Connectivity
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart ping -c 3 -W 10 ubuntu.com
PING ubuntu.com (82.211.81.166) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from signey.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.166): icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=99.9 ms 64 bytes from signey.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.166): icmp_seq=2 ttl=43 time=109 ms 64 bytes from signey.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.166): icmp_seq=3 ttl=43 time=100 ms --- ubuntu.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 99.982/103.450/109.419/4.254 ms
4.4. Configuring the Internal Network Interfaces
4.4.1. Wired Only
# Set up the internal wired network # # Don't forget to change eth1 to the proper name of the internal # wired network interface if applicable. # auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.1 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
Your internal network interface is: eth1 (or whatever you’re using in place of it)
4.4.2. Wireless Only
dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=13 2>/dev/null | xxd -p
# Set up the internal wireless network # # Don't forget to change wlan0 to the proper name of the internal # wireless network interface if applicable. # # If you would like to use WEP, uncomment the line 'wireless-key' # and replace '' with a WEP key. # # You may also change the network essid and channel. # auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static wireless-mode master wireless-essid "UbuntuWireless" wireless-channel 1 #wireless-key address 192.168.0.1 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
Your internal network interface is: wlan0 (or whatever you’re using in place of it)
4.4.3. Both Wired and Wireless
sudo apt-get install bridge-utils
dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=13 2>/dev/null | xxd -p
# Set up the internal wireless network # # Don't forget to change wlan0 to the proper name of the internal # wireless network interface if applicable. # # If you would like to use WEP, uncomment the line 'wireless-key' # and replace '' with a WEP key. # # You may also change the network essid and channel. # auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wireless-mode master wireless-essid "UbuntuWireless" wireless-channel 1 #wireless-key # Set up the internal wired network # # It's not necessary to bring this interface up as the bridge # we are about to create does this. Leave these lines commented. # #auto eth1 #iface eth1 inet manual # Set up the internal wired/wireless network bridge # # Don't forget to change wlan0 and eth1 to the proper name of # the internal wired and wireless interfaces if applicable. # auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 bridge-ports eth1 wlan0
Your internal network interface is: br0
4.5. Enable IP forwarding and Masquerading
echo -e "\n\nLoading simple rc.firewall-iptables version $FWVER..\n" DEPMOD=/sbin/depmod MODPROBE=/sbin/modprobe EXTIF="eth0" INTIF="eth1" #INTIF2="eth0" echo " External Interface: $EXTIF" echo " Internal Interface: $INTIF" #====================================================================== #== No editing beyond this line is required for initial MASQ testing == echo -en " loading modules: " echo " - Verifying that all kernel modules are ok" $DEPMOD -a echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------" echo -en "ip_tables, " $MODPROBE ip_tables echo -en "nf_conntrack, " $MODPROBE nf_conntrack echo -en "nf_conntrack_ftp, " $MODPROBE nf_conntrack_ftp echo -en "nf_conntrack_irc, " $MODPROBE nf_conntrack_irc echo -en "iptable_nat, " $MODPROBE iptable_nat echo -en "nf_nat_ftp, " $MODPROBE nf_nat_ftp echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------" echo -e " Done loading modules.\n" echo " Enabling forwarding.." echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo " Enabling DynamicAddr.." echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr echo " Clearing any existing rules and setting default policy.." iptables-restore *nat -A POSTROUTING -o "$EXTIF" -j MASQUERADE COMMIT *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A FORWARD -i "$EXTIF" -o "$INTIF" -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i "$INTIF" -o "$EXTIF" -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -j LOG COMMIT EOF echo -e "\nrc.firewall-iptables v$FWVER done.\n"
sudo cp nat.sh /etc/init.d/ sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/nat.sh /etc/rc2.d/S95masquradescript
As a final test, restart your computer and test to see if you still have the same functionality. If so then congratulations! If not then make sure you followed the above correctly so the script is bootable.
5. Firewall
6. DHCP and DNS
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