Ansible role natrouter

THIS ROLE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AS OF DEC 2023.

Install and configure a NAT router on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.natrouter

The machine needs to be prepared. In CI this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.sysctl
      sysctl_items:
        - name: net.ipv4.ip_forward
          value: 1

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

The default values for the variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for natrouter

# The network interface connected to the internet.
natrouter_public_interface: eth0

# The network address to translate.
natrouter_private_network: "192.168.1.0/24"

# The destination.
natrouter_destination: "0.0.0.0/0"

# The protocols to NAT.
natrouter_protocols:
  - tcp
  - udp

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

State of used roles

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You can prepare your system in another way.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap
robertdebock.sysctl

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
Alpine	all
EL	8, 9
Debian	all
Fedora	all
opensuse	all
Ubuntu	all

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.12, tests have been done to:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub.

License

Apache-2.0.

Author Information

robertdebock

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