Interfaces, VLANs, PPPoE, gateways, routing and multi-WAN.
- Configuring Cellular Modems — Ixolate supports a wide range of USB and miniPCIe cellular modems that can be used as primary internet (WAN) connection or as failover for a…
- IPv6 Tunnel Broker — Ixolate supports native IPv6 as well as tunneled IPv6. This article shows how to set up TunnelBroker, Hurricane Electric’s IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel, with…
- IPv6 for generic DSL dialup — This short article shows how to setup IPv6 on a standard DSL connection and how to handover the delegated prefix from your provider in your local LAN.
- IPv6 with Zen UK — Zen provide two methods of setting up IPv6.
- Router Advertisements — radvd (the service responsible for this functionality) is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listens to router solicitations and sends…
- ndp-proxy-go (Neighbor Discovery Proxy) — ndp-proxy-go is a userspace host-learning IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Proxy.
- Interfaces — All traffic in Ixolate travels via interfaces. By default, WAN and LAN are assigned, but many more are possible, like GUESTNET (captive…
- Interface overview — The interfaces overview contains an extended version of ifconfig(https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig) that’s available on most systems.
- Interface settings — There are some advanced settings, which you can alter in Interfaces › Settings, most of the time you should leave these settings default, but…
- Other interface types — Besides wired, wireless and VPN interfaces, there are also some other, virtual interfaces, as well as some miscellaneous interface-related. These…
- VLAN and LAGG — Connect your Ixolate Appliance successfully to a Managed Switch using OSI Layer 2 protocols like LAGG and VLAN.
- LAN Bridge — LAN Bridges should really only be used where the LAN secondary, tertiary and other interfaces are not heavily used, if that is the case then it is…
- PPPoE ISP setup — This guide covers the configuration of a PPPoE setup that subscribes the Ixolate to a Provider Edge Router (PE).
- Gateways — blockdiag { Ixolate shape=“cisco.firewall”, label=“”; internet shape=“cloud”; privatenet shape=“cloud”, label=“private net”; Gateway1…
- Routes — Routing is one of the core features of your firewall, which is responsible for forwarding packets over the network based on (predefined) paths.
- Multi-WAN and gateway groups — Multi WAN scenarios are commonly used for failover or load balancing, but combinations are also possible with Ixolate.
- IPv6 setup — To this day IPv6 remains an elusive topic. IPv6 has long been shipped as a default option in Ixolate and received gradual improvements over the…