Eric, How about reading in the lines from a file stored nearby? Just wondering.
Ken On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:53 AM Eric House <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What are you planning to do with these Zeros? Are they going to be part > >> of a cluster or just doing randomly things independently of each other? > > > For now I'll be happy to have them online and reachable by name from the > > rest of my network. > > I've got this working, so thought I'd report on what was involved, if only > so I can find it when I accidentally wipe a micro-sd card. :-) > > First, I was actually mixing two problems: add a handful of usb gadgets and > running a DMZ over an existing ethernet cable. > > The second problem I solved with 802.1Q by buying a smart switch for my > office and, on it and on the existing gateway router's switch, tagging the > existing VLAN and a new DMZ VLAN. One port of the new switch is tagged for > the DMZ and so the Pi4 that hosts the Zeros when it plugs into that port is > isolated in the DMZ. > > The first problem I solved by bridging all usb<N> interfaces with the eth0 > interface on the Pi4. /etc/network/interfaces is this simple (for two > Zeros): > > allow-hotplug usb0 > iface usb0 inet manual > up brctl addif br0 $IFACE > > allow-hotplug usb1 > iface usb1 inet manual > up brctl addif br0 $IFACE > > auto br0 > iface br0 inet dhcp > # Use eth0's mac for consistent IP DHCP addr assignment > bridge_hw aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff > bridge_ports eth0 regex usb.* > > Unfortunately as my Zero collection grows I'll need to repeat the three > per-iface lines over and over, but I can't find any regex-based way around > it. > > Oh, and I had to disable avahi. It's possible that having done so will > prevent other uses of usb in the future. > > # sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service > > Anyway, thanks for the pointers getting me started! > > --Eric > -- > My g-bike can trounce your e-bike! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
