I am very intrigued by the new Drop In Gateway feature. According to the network topology map here:
the Gl-Inet router is to be connected directly to the main router and there are no devices connected to the GL-Inet router. Yet the GL-Inet router is able to affect all other devices on the local network. I don’t understand how the GL-Inet router affects devices that are not connected to it.
At a guess, all local clients must be reconfigured via DHCP to use the Drop In gateway device as their default gateway, thus forcing all internet traffic to go through GL-Inet device. Is this correct?
I use a different DHCP server than that which is on my router (the DHCP server is on a local switch). I don’t want to use the GL-Inet device as a DHCP server. Will Drop In Gateway work if I just reconfigure my current DHCP server to tell all clients that the default gateway is the GL-Inet device?
Final question: Can the GL-Inet device acting as a Drop In Gateway be configured to get its LAN address from my DHCP server or does the GL-Inet device insist on being in charge of its own LAN address?
The current documentation describes a scheme for version 4.1 firmware that uses ARP spoofing to get clients to send traffic to Drop In Gateway. This solution is not very stable.
In version 4.2, we will change it to another solution that uses DHCP. This solution requires the user to either disable DHCP on the main router to use DHCP on Drop In Gateway, or to modify the gateway (DHCP Option 3) that the DHCP server on the main router sends to the client as the Drop In Gateway IP.
@ yuxin.zou I am not a big fan of the implementation in firmware v.4.2 as this adds the whole network dependency on the GL-iNet device.
With Drop In Gateway on firmware v.4.1 I was able to manually select devices that can use GL-iNet router as a dedicated VPN gateway.
Is there any plan to have maybe both implementations in the future firmware?
At the moment I am stuck with firmware v.4.1 as this is exactly what I need in my networking setup.
Regards
morcheba
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We have no plans to re-add the ARP spoofing method yet. Drop In Gateway with ARP spoofing is prone to unstable audio and video calls and games. This problem cannot be solved. A feature that causes network instability after a simple setup is much more costly for us.
However, we will discuss releasing Drop In Gateway with ARP spoofing as a plug-in.