How to configure switching between network interfaces?
How to configure switching between network interfaces? I would like to determine how, or if, the following can be accomplished with FreeBSD. Configuration: A BSD box setup with 1 GbE NIC and a 4 port 10/100 NIC The GbE interface will have a static IP configured (192.168.10.x/24) Planned Implementation: Along with possibly serving other data such as NFS or HTTP traffic, I would like the interfaces to work as a switch. The GbE interface is a fiber optic NIC which connects to the rest of the network 100 or so meters away. I plan to use the other 4 interfaces to attach hosts to my network. I would prefer all of my hosts to be on the same subnet if possible, otherwise I would just configure routing between the appropriate interfaces. My question then is: Can the interfaces be configured to function as a switch would, allowing the connected hosts to recieve DHCP and other traffic routing from the fiber optic interface via the FreeBSD box. I know that in a basic configuration, 2 interfaces on the same subnet are not a best practice and would required special routing information. I assume that somewhere this can be configured. A good shove in the right direction would be most appreciated. Thanks, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure switching between network interfaces?
Myself, I'd get a couple of small fiber/ethernet convertors and then connect everything to a small ethernet switch. A bit more money, but simpler and I like simple. -- Martin On 12/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure switching between network interfaces? I would like to determine how, or if, the following can be accomplished with FreeBSD. Configuration: A BSD box setup with 1 GbE NIC and a 4 port 10/100 NIC The GbE interface will have a static IP configured (192.168.10.x/24) Planned Implementation: Along with possibly serving other data such as NFS or HTTP traffic, I would like the interfaces to work as a switch. The GbE interface is a fiber optic NIC which connects to the rest of the network 100 or so meters away. I plan to use the other 4 interfaces to attach hosts to my network. I would prefer all of my hosts to be on the same subnet if possible, otherwise I would just configure routing between the appropriate interfaces. My question then is: Can the interfaces be configured to function as a switch would, allowing the connected hosts to recieve DHCP and other traffic routing from the fiber optic interface via the FreeBSD box. I know that in a basic configuration, 2 interfaces on the same subnet are not a best practice and would required special routing information. I assume that somewhere this can be configured. A good shove in the right direction would be most appreciated. Thanks, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure switching between network interfaces?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure switching between network interfaces? I would like to determine how, or if, the following can be accomplished with FreeBSD. Configuration: A BSD box setup with 1 GbE NIC and a 4 port 10/100 NIC The GbE interface will have a static IP configured (192.168.10.x/24) Planned Implementation: Along with possibly serving other data such as NFS or HTTP traffic, I would like the interfaces to work as a switch. The GbE interface is a fiber optic NIC which connects to the rest of the network 100 or so meters away. I plan to use the other 4 interfaces to attach hosts to my network. I would prefer all of my hosts to be on the same subnet if possible, otherwise I would just configure routing between the appropriate interfaces. My question then is: Can the interfaces be configured to function as a switch would, allowing the connected hosts to recieve DHCP and other traffic routing from the fiber optic interface via the FreeBSD box. I know that in a basic configuration, 2 interfaces on the same subnet are not a best practice and would required special routing information. I assume that somewhere this can be configured. A good shove in the right direction would be most appreciated. You can configure the interfaces together as a bridge and FreeBSD will act as a smart switch-- see the bridge(4) manpage or the Handbook for more info. Note that this configuration might make sense if you wanted to impose firewall rules to limit cross-segment traffic while still letting the client machines all be on one subnet. Or you might divert all WWW traffic seen going by to a transparent proxy server. But unless you plan to do something with this traffic like that-- if all you want to do is have a switch-- you'd otherwise be better off getting a 4-port gigabit Cu or Fibre switch then setting up a dedicated server for the task. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure switching between network interfaces?
Thanks, I believe thats what i'm looking for. I will probably end up with a cu-fiber switch, but I wanted to know if that was possible in theroy. The switches make more sense anyway because, otherwise, i'll have to setup a makeshift bridge on the server on the other end of the fiber. - Mike - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:49 pm Subject: Re: How to configure switching between network interfaces? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure switching between network interfaces? I would like to determine how, or if, the following can be accomplished with FreeBSD. Configuration: A BSD box setup with 1 GbE NIC and a 4 port 10/100 NIC The GbE interface will have a static IP configured (192.168.10.x/24) Planned Implementation: Along with possibly serving other data such as NFS or HTTP traffic, I would like the interfaces to work as a switch. The GbE interface is a fiber optic NIC which connects to the rest of the network 100 or so meters away. I plan to use the other 4 interfaces to attach hosts to my network. I would prefer all of my hosts to be on the same subnet if possible, otherwise I would just configure routing between the appropriate interfaces. My question then is: Can the interfaces be configured to function as a switch would, allowing the connected hosts to recieve DHCP and other traffic routing from the fiber optic interface via the FreeBSD box. I know that in a basic configuration, 2 interfaces on the same subnet are not a best practice and would required special routing information. I assume that somewhere this can be configured. A good shove in the right direction would be most appreciated. You can configure the interfaces together as a bridge and FreeBSD will act as a smart switch-- see the bridge(4) manpage or the Handbook for more info. Note that this configuration might make sense if you wanted to impose firewall rules to limit cross-segment traffic while still letting the client machines all be on one subnet. Or you might divert all WWW traffic seen going by to a transparent proxy server. But unless you plan to do something with this traffic like that-- if all you want to do is have a switch-- you'd otherwise be better off getting a 4-port gigabit Cu or Fibre switch then setting up a dedicated server for the task. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
