[DSL/LTE Auto-switch Setup] #openwrt #dsl #lte #multiwan

dsl-lte-auto-switch-setup.md

DSL/LTE Auto-switch Setup

Synopsis

This is how I setup my home router to share a 4G/LTE connection at day and switch to a DSL connection overnight.

It also falls back to DSL connection whenever the 4G/LTE connection dies.

Why?

A 4G connection is generally faster than a normal ADSL connection where I live and my DSL provider charges me for the Internet traffic at day (overnight usage is free.) On the other hand, not only the unlimited traffic plans are super expensive but also they're doomed with what they call, fair usage policy (about 40GBs per month) which IMO is obtuse.

So my idea is to use a 4G/LTE connection at day and switch to the DSL connection overnight.

I also setup a non-caching proxy server so that I can configure my download manager to use that for downloading files. The router always routes the outgoing traffic originating from the proxy server through the DSL gateway. That way I can always surf the internet and download files simultaniously without any disturbance.

Requirements

1. A DSL modem
2. An OpenWrt compatible router
3. An LTE/4G modem

Roles

In my current setup:

1. DSL modem only provides the OpenWrt router with PPP connection over ethernet
2. The whole magic happens in the OpenWrt router (including the non-caching proxy server)
3. The LTE/4G modem/router is responsible for providing the data connection to the OpenWrt router and WiFi to the clients.

DSL Modem Config

I set the DSL modem connection mode to bridge and connected it to the WAN port of my OpenWrt router.

LTE/4G Modem/Router Config

I configured it as I normally would. I set its IP address to 192.168.1.1 and configured the internal DHCP server to assign the clients IP addresses in range of 192.168.1.100-200 and set the default gateway to 192.168.1.2!

Finally I connected the modem to port 0 of my OpenWrt router.

OpenWrt Route

Installed packages:

• privoxy
• mwan3

VLANs and Interfaces:

VLAN ID	Ports	Network	Firewall Zone
1	1,2,3	br-lan	lan
2	4	wan	wan
3	0	wan2	wan2

I assigned the IP address of 192.168.2.1 to the router (br-lan network) And configured the wan network to connect through the DSL modem and set its gateway metric to 20

I also disabled the DHCP server on wan2 network and assigned the static IP address of 192.168.1.2, the default gateway of 192.168.1.1, and the gateway metric of 10 to that interface.

Firewall Config:

Zone => Forwardings	Input	Output	Forward	Masquerade	MSS clamping	Allow forward to destination zones	Allow forward from source zones
lan => wan wan2	accept	accept	accept	no	no	wan wan2	wan2
wan => REJECT	reject	accept	reject	yes	yes	-	lan wan2
wan2 => lan wan	accept	accept	accept	yes	yes	lan wan	lan

Privoxy Config

I modified the listen-address line in /etc/privoxy.conf and set the bind address to 192.168.1.2

Then enabled the privoxy service:

/etc/init.d/privoxy enable
/etc/init.d/privoxy start

mwan3 Config

config rule 'self'
    option src_ip '192.168.2.1'
    option dest_ip '0.0.0.0/0'
    option proto 'all'
    option sticky '0'
    option use_policy 'adsl'

config rule 'all'
    option proto 'all'
    option sticky '0'
    option use_policy 'balanced'
    option src_ip '0.0.0.0/0'
    option dest_ip '0.0.0.0/0'

config interface 'wan'
    option enabled '1'
    list track_ip '8.8.8.8'
    option reliability '1'
    option count '1'
    option timeout '2'
    option interval '5'
    option down '3'
    option up '3'

config interface 'wan2'
    option enabled '1'
    list track_ip '8.8.8.8'
    option reliability '1'
    option count '1'
    option timeout '2'
    option interval '5'
    option down '3'
    option up '3'

config member 'm1'
    option interface 'wan'
    option weight '1'
    option metric '10'

config member 'm2'
    option interface 'wan2'
    option metric '10'
    option weight '1'

config policy 'balanced'
    list use_member 'm1'
    list use_member 'm2'
    option last_resort 'unreachable'

config policy 'adsl'
    list use_member 'm1'
    option last_resort 'unreachable'

I enabled crontab (/etc/init/cron enable) and added the following line to crontab file (crontab -e)

* * * * * /bin/ash /root/switch_int.sh

Then SSH'd to the router and created a file named switch_int.sh in /root:

#!/bin/ash

if [ $(date +"%H") -gt 1 ] && [ $(date +"%H") -lt 21 ]; then
        echo lte
        route del -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0.3 metric 30 &>/dev/null
        route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0.3 metric 10 &>/dev/null
else
        echo adsl
        route del -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0.3 metric 10 &>/dev/null
        route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0.3 metric 30 &>/dev/null
fi

Finally I set its executable flag (chmod +x /root/switch_int.sh) and rebooted the router.

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