Supporting multiple WAN interfaces in a seamless and transparent way
Channel: Adjy Leak
Date: 13/10/2016

At last year's summit, Hans Dedecker introduced Technicolor's solution for supporting services across multiple WAN interfaces with an OpenWrt based product. While most OpenWrt users need just one single WAN interface for all broadband traffic, we are confronted with telcos requiring multiple services on the WAN. For example, they might want to separate data, video, voice and management traffic in multiple VLANs.

This year, we'd like to introduce a related challenge: how to support an OpenWrt based product that can be connected to the Internet via one of many different types of WAN interfaces like Ethernet, DSL and LTE-- each employing one of many different protocols like PPP and DHCP--in a manner which is transparent to the rest of the system?

OpenWrt does not provide an out of the box solution for this use case today. In this presentation, we will describe the use cases in more detail and present our solution which includes new OpenWrt packages and scripts.

Johan Peeters, Technicolor
OpenWrt Summit 2016 - Berlin