[9fans] bridging
On a related note to the nat discussion, is there a bridging mechanism similar in function to Stephen Hemminger's Linux brutils in the distribution? Ian
Re: [9fans] bridging
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Richard Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a bridging mechanism similar in function to Stephen Hemminger's Linux brutils Try bridge(3) Ahh I think that may be what I was looking for, thanks. I note that the man page says it won't support IPv6 but will this work for other ethernet types or must it be IPv4. What I really want is the ability to put a small plan9 box (like a soekris for starters) in between two hosts or a host and a switch then run snoopy on the conversation. Ian
Re: [9fans] bridging
Ahh I think that may be what I was looking for, thanks. I note that the man page says it won't support IPv6 but will this work for other ethernet types or must it be IPv4. What I really want is the ability to put a small plan9 box (like a soekris for starters) in between two hosts or a host and a switch then run snoopy on the conversation. Ian if that's what you want, you may want to make a copy of snoopy that takes an extra argument [-c dest] that copies packets matching the filter to dest. you'll need one snoopy in each direction to do it this way so it may be worth the effort to allow snoopy to read from two input sources and copy packets to the other side. cec(3)'s mux.c has an example of how to read from two input sources and pretend that you're single-threaded. the 83815s on the soekris are a tad pokey, even by 100mbit standards. - erik
Re: [9fans] bridging
There are several models of Soekris machines. We bought the 5501s, and they each have 4 VT6105M Ethernet interfaces, which aren't stellar but seem to be okay. ipifc or ipmux, described in ip(3), are probably worth looking at. 6in4(8) is an example of a program that uses both to encapsulate ipv6 in ipv4.
