Dual WAN and my home needs

[rifken2]

I have a situation and I just don't know where to turn for answers...

I have two internet connections and a gigabit network. The initial setup was just a single internet connection and everything was great. I work from home 90% of the time and I use my internet for work. I have a NAS that I use for storing client files for staging, processing, etc. I also use the NAS to store my media; music, movies, tv shows. I like to watch movies while I work.

I now have two connections, one for the entire home and one for work. One of them is cable and one is DSL. I use DD-WRT on a x86 PC with an Intel dual port NIC. I can hook up the cable modem and things work. I can change out the cable for DSL and things work great. I plan to install a second Intel dual port NIC to accommodate the second internet connect so that I have both WAN connections available.

What I want to know is if there is a way I can route my WAN traffic from my cable modem to my workstation? I want the rest of my network to use the DSL connection for internet. To make my head hurt even more, I want to keep access to my local NAS from my workstation as well.

At this point I am getting in way over my head... I figure there should be a way to route certain ports from a certain IP to a particular WAN port... but not sure...

All I want to do is use one internet connection for my workstation only and the other internet connection for the rest of my setup. I also want to be able to access my NAS and the rest of my network from my workstation.

Can I do this, in any shape or capacity?

 

[JackMDS]

You do not need two NICs.

Get a Dual WAN Router.

http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-33-122-380

Download this free APP and you can switch fast the connection with changing DNS.

http://www.sordum.org/7952/dns-jumper-v1-0-6/

If you need Wireless add a Wireless Router configured as Access Point.

Using Wireless Routers (or Modem/Wireless Router) as a Switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

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In general - http://www.ezlan.net/loadbalance.html

 

[azazel1024]

You are going to have to set the routing rules. Should be able to setup a rule in DD-WRT to route traffic to/from your workstation over the cable connection and route everything else through the DSL connection.

You don't need another dual NIC, all you need is a single port for each WAN connection and one for the LAN connection.

 

[rifken2]

I realize I don't need another dual NIC... In my head everyone knew what I meant...! I meant to say that I have another dual NIC card sitting in a drawer beside me and that is what I will install in the PC to get a third port... I'll leave the fourth port dormant.

 

[Cooky]

The dual-WAN router Jack suggested isn't too expensive.
It may have what you need w/o having to go through headache.

How much work do you get done while watching movies at the same time BTW?

 

[rifken2]

considering it's movies I have already seen and it is rarely on the screen, it's mainly background noise because I work alone... But yes... I know what you mean!

 

[simas]

another option is to build your own firewall using something like pfsense. I had similar needs as you (traffic shaping, WAN failover, WAN load balancing, etc) and free hardware laying around . Pfsense was very easy to set up and get running. rock solid