How to set up Alpine as a wireless router

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Pi Zero W Wireless Router

This is a page to describe building a Wireless Access Point with two wired ethernet ports for building a home router that connects to the internet with one wired port, and internal Lan with the second wired port and the on-board WiFi.

The intent is to provide this:

                                    |<-->eth1 <-->| 
Internet <--> eth0 <-->FireWall<-->br0           Internal<--> ssh,bind,dhcp, with ssh reverse ssh connections.
                                    |<-->wlan0<-->|

Overview

I generally run Debian and when forced by Red Hot Irons, Red Hat. This is my first foray into Alpine. So far I am very impressed. I mirrored the 3.12 armhf repos so I had things local when I needed them. Word to the wise. That is 13G of apk files.
One *really* nice feature of Alpine is apk, the yum/apt replacement:

  • It is simple, short, and to the point.
  • The same tool provides *repo* level dependency reporting!
  • Install of single packages without repo signing (I never did get the signing correct).

Install

References

apk notes:

  • Create and index and check dependencies on a list of apk files: apk index -o APKINDEX.unsigned.tar.gz *.apk
  • Install a package: apk add iw OR apk add /path/to/iw-5.4-r0.apk
  • remove a package: apk del iw
  • repositories are in: /etc/apk/repositories
 * Local URL: /media/mmcblk0p1/apks
 * Remote URL: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main


udhcpc
ez-ipupdate
Dynamic_DNS
Alpine Linux Bridge
Connect to wireless AP
dnsmasq listen restrictions
Disable IPV6
dnsmasq Docs
HostApd Docs
[rsync://rsync.alpinelinux.org/alpine Alpine Repos]

Pi Specific

Pi Wifi Repeater
WiFi Bridge
Alpine Install
PiZeroW Install
Classic Sys Install on Pi

Not Related, but Interesting

AP and Managed Mode
AP and MQTT