On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
If that is the case, can I use LAN as the management interface, Do not give a nic to the WAN but define the IP for it. Give the two nic I want to bridge to OPT1 and OPT2? Is this expected to change in 2.x? all the best, drew -- http://freemusicpush.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
