e- Barrio: Making Hi-edge Router in the middle of nowhere.

Introductions:

What will you do when you are living in a coastal area where there is no road to travel and sailing by sea was been dangerous and you need your router to be replaced?Yes! a router machine that you need in the middle of nowhere, what you have got is a satellite internet access and 1 recordable CD only. Definitely we need a hi-grade router, that could functions a 24 by 7 usage and avoid some worries that it will get sucks during operations. So the objective first was to have a working router otherwise we need to repair it (LinksysWRTG54) but hey, the router was really been damaged because of too much current fluctuations that made its circuit to blew . For a practical reason and to anticipate stand-by operation, we need to immediately replace the Linksys router and that was a big questions then-How and When?

And here was the story begun,Menard my technical team mate who happen to be in the field buzzed me " Padi men bagsak si router ta" Brother,our router here is sucked , so its downtime period!Upon hearing the problem,I told him "Padi men,gibo kita router" "Padi men we will make a router instead " he then said "eu padi kaya lang papano?" "Yes , brother but how will we" and again my reply " Ok Padi men download ka ning stable release ning IP Cop tapos kua kang sarong computer saka extra LAN card" "Ok Padi men please download IP Cop stable /release version and a pieces of LAN cards through that we will make a router" and he said "OK.."so then the story continued by following the HowTo's of IP Cop and to make the long story short-we had recovered our down time as soonest possible.

Instead ,I would share to you how we tweaked it from PC to a router.

Requirements:
Hardware:
PII Hitachi (mini-Desktop)
Softwares:
1)IPCop version 1.4.20
2)Smooth wall

Methodology:
Use IPCop software to make a simple PC router this will enable all the capabilities of a NAT,Firewall and Bandwidth traffic managements inside an old almost junk PC.The project will demonstrate how a modified router will surpass the performance ofthe commercially available routers.

Here is te HowTo's
1) Add a PCI LAN Card into your PC

2)Download the IPCop here
http://www.ipcop.org/index-pn.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41

3) Configuring PC to be a router

a) DSL/MODEM (Red) configure WAN in DHCP mode.
*We choose this options for fast IP broadcast coming from the source

b) HUB1(Green) configure with a static IP and enable DHCP server
*The first hub/switch are able to broadcast range of IP's

c)HUB2 (Orange) configure with a static IP and enable DHCP server
*The second hub/switch are able to broadcast range of IP's

4) A PC router using NAT,Port forwarding and blocking sites

Detail(1): Oh! the router got sucks..