The problem:
My router (WDR4300) was overloaded with 30ish concurrent clients and 240ish quotas to keep track of, and load was way too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Option 1: Switch to a Draytek router with quota mangement
Option 2: Buy a USB->Ethernet adapter and virtualize Gargoyle on Proxmox on a 4th gen intel processor
Option 3: Set up VLANs on a OpenWRT router and pass tagged traffic to and from the virtualized Gargoyle router using the single ethernet port<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) and 2) are en route, but in the meantime, internet traffic is slow and the router is struggling. I thought about how proxmox doesn’t really use wifi, so the PCI wifi card would be available to pass through to a OpenWRT-based VM, and thus would have two network interfaces to avoid having to learn how to do vlans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make the wifi card available to VMs by editing Using gargoyle-pl as a base, was able to install onto a VM with the following procedure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the proxmox host:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a new VM with the following settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the proxmox host shell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go back to the Proxmox Web UI. Select the VM -> Hardware. You will see an Unused Disk. Double-click it and click Add. Go to Options -> Boot Order. Move the new disk to the top and ensure it’s checked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the pl version of gargoyle, you have access to package manager and a way to install them using opkg. But since the eth0 is associated with LAN, not WAN, the VM won’t have internet access because it wants to serve the LAN. To get around this temporarily, use the convenient console in proxmox (this makes it much easier to configure when no route to the host exists)<\/p>\n\n\n\nnano \/etc\/default\/grub<\/code><\/mark>, adding intel_iommu=on<\/code><\/mark> to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT (goes inside the quotes with a space in between any other text), run update-grub<\/code><\/mark>, and reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\nwget https:\/\/dl.eko.one.pl\/gargoyle-pl\/1.15\/targets\/x86\/64\/gargoyle-1.15.0.4-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\ngunzip ~\/gargoyle-1.15.0.4-generic-ext4-combined.img.gz<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
vmbr0<\/code>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nqm importdisk 100 ~\/gargoyle-1.15.0.4-generic-ext4-combined.img local-lvm<\/code><\/mark> (or whatever VM id you have)<\/p>\n\n\n\nudhcpc -i br-lan<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\nroute add default gw 192.168.1.1 br-lan<\/code><\/mark> (or whatever your gateway is)<\/p>\n\n\n\n