Topic: Mulitple Internet Connections

[rich155]

Hey guys wonder if any one could help me here. Have a SME server handling current network with standard setup and have just acquired another network connection. What I would like to do is assign this internet connection to certain computers on the network.

Would the solution be to add an additional NIC for the extra internet connection and add an additional network? if so how would i go about assigning anything to users and are there likely to be any side affects?

Thanks

[Stefano]

Hi

SME does not support such a configuration..

IMHO, you should put something like pfsense in front of your server

my 2c

ciao
Stefano

[mercyh]

The short answer is that this is outside of the scope of SME. You need to look at a router with "multihome" capability.

What I would like to do is assign this internet connection to certain computers on the network.

This part would be quite difficult to work out. Generally the router would decide which connection to use and it would apply to the whole network.

[rich155]

thought it might be possible by creating another local network and assigining it a specific router or something. so hopefully i wouldnt need to put in an additional computer

[mercyh]

thought it might be possible by creating another local network and assigining it a specific router or something

It should be possible to do what you are describing above. However, it will be difficult if the two networks need to share things like servers, printers, etc. I think this thread http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,42445.0.html may give you the information you need to achieve the connection between the two networks.

(You will need a second and maybe a third router for this.)


Internet                            Internet
   v                                      v
SME                                   Router
   v                                       v
   v                                       v
Lan 1>>>>    router  <<<<<<<Lan 2

I would not like to be the person supporting this....