Thanks Darryl! I am gonna have to find me some of those managed switches to play with the Uniquiti units... Suggestions?

Bill - N5MBM

OK!

Would Cisco 3524xl switches work for this? Have two that I got to 'tinker' with for when I start my cisco classes next semester for my network admin degree.

Like I said previously, I still have a lot to learn and what better way for me to start putting what I am 'supposedly' learning to good use?

So what do I need to do now to start 'tunnelling' to help Bill waste more bandwitdh? :} Any documentation I can refer to here?

James W8ISS

@W8ISS - You are going to need a router...  Something with Vtun capability and something that can deal with different port definitions and NAT redirection.

The Ubiquiti and the linksys units kind of work like little Linux boxes all on their own.   But they don't have a lot of memory to play with.  I can't tell you too much about how the vtun works on these as I have just started tinkering with them myself.

However, it would be interesting to see if we can get the RasberryPi folks and the Linux folks to come up with a way to do all this without linksys boxes.  They work, but they aren't all that and a bag of chips...  My Ubiquiti gear responds MUCH faster and pumps more data than those little Linksys boxes can.

I am no programmer but it is easy to see that with memory constraints, features become sparse!

Bill - N5MBM

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If you are looking for a switch to share the single ethernet port on a Ubiquiti node so it can do both WAN and LAN then yes, a cisco switch would let you do the vlans for that. You just need to get your head round vlans & Cisco IOS. The netgear switch config details are here: http://ae5ca.com/?p=49

As Bill has said, for tunnelling you will need to look at v3.0.1 of the firmware and setup vtun. More info here: http://www.aredn.org/node/25

I am looking at the possibility of using one of my Raspberry Pi nodes or the laptop I have that thinks its a node to setup a tunnel to Bill.

Jon