Steve Totaro wrote:
My only wish is that Linux had a facility like XP to bridge NICs without running all sorts of commands for brctl. Just a GUI like XP. Last time I setup a bridge in Linux, I had to change many kernel options and rebuild the entire kernel to get bridging working properly. With XP, you just select the NICS, right click and select add to bridge.
For linux, I find that running firestarter, ICS/Firewall is fine, my end game is to get all of my traffic to go over an OpenVPN tunnel at my colo which is the default gateway over OpenVPN. Windows seems to have the easiest method of getting this done.
I've taken to using Debian derivatives lately, so your YMMV, but maybe this is helpful to you...
I haven't had to rebuild any recent kernels for bridging. I do have to apt-get bridge-utils, but that's a trivial thing I do on any box I install. I also typically apt-get other userspace stuff like vlan, nmap, tcpdump and wireshark, etc.
I've been using the following type of code in /etc/network/interfaces to effect bridges. When I want to bridge a tap device with openvpn, I do something similar to establish a bridge at boot time with only one physical ether attached. Then I put the final brctl add into a script which is invoked via the up option line in the openvpn conf file. Then it's all automatic. I don't (yet) know how to do it on other distros.
The following fragment is used to connect to a redundant pair of asterisks for failover:
# bridge of two ethers for alternative paths to SIP clients auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 auto eth2 iface eth2 inet static address 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 auto sipbr0 iface sipbr0 inet static address 192.168.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 network 192.168.1.0 bridge-ports eth1 eth2
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