Looks like there should be no spaces in netween the bridge creation and
extif...
Not sure that was it but when I put them together and reboot it it worked.
Thanks guys!
Thank You,
Fernando Fuentes
DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Fernando F. <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am not sure what went wrong but the system no longer gets an IP. I did
> exactly as I posted here.
> Time for some console.
> Any ideas how I can fix it from console?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Fernando Fuentes
> DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, James Babiak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Fernando,
>>
>> Yes,
>> BRIDGE0="eth0 eth1 eth2"
>> will bridge those three interfaces and create the virtual br0 interface,
>> which you can then assign as the external (or internal) interface.
>>
>> One question - is your astlinux box only connected to your LAN and is it
>> using that as it's external/WAN interface? If so, then yes, you will setup
>> EXTIF=br0 as you specified. However, if you have your box setup to use a
>> different interface for external/WAN access (ie: eth4), then you would
>> still use that as EXTIF and specify INTIF=br0 (or INT2IF, etc.).
>>
>> I'm still a little confused with what you are trying to accomplish, and
>> why you want to use bridge mode over other options.
>>
>> Remember, if you setup your interfaces as a bridge, the astlinux box will
>> not be routing the packets between the two (or more) interfaces. It will
>> simply forward them just like a switch (sort of). So you wouldn't be able
>> to do any NAT'ing or port forwarding on the astlinux box, that would have
>> to be done on the primary gateway device.
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>> On 11/15/2012 11:37 AM, Fernando F. wrote:
>>
>> Thank you all for the help, links, doc, and advices.
>> To make sure I am in the right track for me to have the devices in eth1
>> and eth2 get an IP from my LAN which is connected to eth0 I do:
>>
>>
>> BRIDGE0=“eth0 eth1 eth2”
>> EXTIF="br0"
>>
>>
>> The end goal is to have access to the web interfaces of my phones and
>> devices behind the Astlinux router.
>> I can also enable dhcp on the ports and just map those ports to a
>> iptables rule to map the ports...
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thank you all for the help!
>>
>> Thank You,
>>
>> Fernando Fuentes
>> DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, James Babiak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Fernando,
>>>
>>> I've used bridge mode before numerous times, but only on two physical
>>> interfaces. According to the network init script, it looks like having >2
>>> would work, but I don't know if anyone has ever actually tried that.
>>>
>>> With two interfaces bridged, I never really saw any noticeable
>>> performance hit, even after doing some stress testing. On a fairly low
>>> powered board, I was able to simulate about 30mbps of bandwidth to transit
>>> the bridge without disrupting call quality or causing any significant load
>>> to the box. However, as always, YMMV. One thing that we did have an issue
>>> with was traffic shaping. Please note that we did this on a very customized
>>> (and older) version of Astlinux, so the current mainstream version might
>>> not be affected, but basically it would throttle traffic symmetrically and
>>> at the lowest value. What I mean by this is that if you set the circuit
>>> speeds to, say, 1500 up and 6000 down, it would throttle both up- and
>>> down-stream traffic by the lower 1500 value. Therefore, while we did use
>>> this on occasion, it would only be viable for symmetric speed circuits.
>>> Obviously if you aren't using traffic shaping then that issue is moot
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> We used this configuration when we had a customer that had multiple IP
>>> addresses, but wanted our device to sit between the ISP CPE and their
>>> router/firewall. Using 'bridge mode', we were able to pass the extra public
>>> IP address(es) internally, while still providing a level of QoS and
>>> manageability. The configuration is easy and straightforward. Note however
>>> that once an interface is included in a bridge (ie: br0), you can only
>>> apply configuration changes to that virtual interface and not the
>>> individual bridge members. So if you only have four physical interfaces,
>>> and all four are in this bridge, your system will effectively only have a
>>> single interface. This means you won't have any routing capabilities, as
>>> everything will appear to be external. Though you might be able to setup
>>> some crazy VLANs to circumvent this...
>>>
>>> Anyway, putting four interfaces into a bridge might have a greater
>>> impact to performance - I couldn't really say. You could always test it out
>>> and see what happens. But I would probably recommend using only two at
>>> most, and putting the second interface into a switch.
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/15/2012 09:10 AM, Fernando F. wrote:
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply. I am a bit nervous on how bad the performance
>>> impact will be...
>>> I am trying to move all of my telecom gear to it without the need of
>>> another switch.
>>> Is any body out there actively using their system in bridge mode? How
>>> bad is the performance impact?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank You,
>>>
>>> Fernando Fuentes
>>> DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:08 AM, David Kerr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the bottom of the "Network" tab click on edit user variables and add
>>>> a line like this into the file...
>>>>
>>>> BRIDGE1="eth1 eth2"
>>>>
>>>> After reboot, a new interface br1 will be visible in the Network tab
>>>> of the user interface. As far as I know you can add multiple eth
>>>> interfaces to the bridge.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Fernando F.
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Darrick,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the advice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank You,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fernando Fuentes
>>>>> DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Darrick Hartman <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Fernando,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, this is possible, but that sounds a lot like a switch with poor
>>>>>> performance ;). Take a look at the examples in /stat/etc/rc.conf.
>>>>>> You’ll
>>>>>> need to have the appropriate variables added to user.conf, but it should
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> pretty straightforward. Again, use /stat/etc/rc.conf as an example, do
>>>>>> NOT
>>>>>> edit that file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you can’t figure it out by tomorrow, I’m sure someone else can
>>>>>> respond with the exact variables. Once you have the bridge (br0)
>>>>>> created,
>>>>>> it should show up in the web interface and allow you to manipulate
>>>>>> settings
>>>>>> on that interface.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again, I really think you’d be better off with a 5 port switch
>>>>>> because bridging those eth devices will come with a penalty in
>>>>>> performance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Darrick
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *From:* Fernando F. [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:14 PM
>>>>>> *To:* AstLinux Users Mailing List
>>>>>> *Subject:* [Astlinux-users] Bridging eth ports
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to bridge the eth ports on astlinux?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to bridge eth1,2,3 to eth0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank You,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fernando Fuentes
>>>>>> DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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