On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, drew Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > What I am looming to do is set up box with 3 nics. I want to bridge > two of them but not assign IP addresses to those nics. I want to > (possibly) set up an ip address in the third nic for management > purposes. > > I want this to allow me to drop the box inline anywhere on a network > using the two bridged nics and have traffic pass through the box > without needing to change anything network wise. I want to be able to > shape and possibly filter traffic passing the bridge. > > From my initial reading a week or two ago I thought pfsense would be > able to do this for me. I brought up my first box with pfsense this > morning but it seems to want ip addresses where I don't want to put > any. > > Am I misunderstanding something, or is there a documented workaround > that I can use to do what I want? >
In 1.2.x, LAN and WAN must have IPs. OPT interfaces can be left IP-less by bridging them, or putting "none" into the IP address box. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
