"Robert Ken Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> This is probably a common hardware configuration. I have a wireless NIC in
> my notebook
> and a built-in NIC. My wireless NIC is 10 times slower than my built-in NIC
> so I prefer
> to just plug in the built-in NIC when I can.
>
> I would like to have them both going to the same router. In my Windows
> partition I have
> a "Network Bridge" to bridge together the NICs. The soft bridge has its own
> IP address.
> The advantage is that I don't have to configure anything or do anything. It
> just works.
> Is there a software bridge like this in FreeBSD?
if_bridge(4) should do most of what you need, and even implements
spanning tree, but it might take a little work to make sure that the
wired connection gets the traffic when present...
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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