Any thoughts or suggestions? It'd be nice if there were an easier way I was just making do with the equipment we had on-hand. My next mission is to configure traffic shaping on the link to make sure no one hogs the whole thing, but that's a secondary concern.Īnyway, was just excited to get this working and wanted to share so other people know it's possible. The Hacom's built-in Atheros wireless NIC is then used to redistribute the now-combined Verizon link via 802.11b/g/n wifi to all authorized computers in the area.Īll in all it works pretty well (I'm kind of surprised) and we are getting pretty good throughput with about 15 simultaneous users. So I threw that Mifi in Tier 2, which means pfSense will only use it when the other connections are overloaded or down.
There's a catch though - one of the Mifi's is over its 5 GB data limit, so it's heavily throttled. The pfSense is programmed to use each of the three Mifi connections as a separate Internet gateway, and round-robin load-balances across all three gateways. The laptop is then connected to a switch, which has three lines run individually to the pfSense router (a Hacom unit). Each VM has ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) enabled and is sharing the Mifi connection out via a virtual NIC, which is mapped to the real-world physical NIC in the laptop. Attached to the laptop are three Verizon Mifi 4g hotspots, each running in tethered USB mode and tethered to one of the VMs. Verizon cell tower (4g) -> Mifi's (3) -> Laptop -> VMs -> ICS -> Physical cable -> Switch -> Router -> Wifiīasically, there are three Windows XP VirtualBox VM's running on the laptop. It took about 8 hours of work to get everything up and running. Due to the training requirements of the mission we're not supposed to have any external access to the Internet (for training realism), but some of the higher ranking in our unit have been bugging me for access (and I can't be without reddit, obviously), so I set up this janky contraption and it seems to work, amazingly enough. I'm out in the field training with the Army, and work in commo (communications). My proudest hack so far (Multiple Verizon Mifi's+VirtualBox+pfSense+load-balancing)
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