On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:34 PM, drew Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? >> > > In 2.0 you don't have to set an IP on any interface (though if you set > them all to "none", you can't get in and change anything anymore of > course).
Thanks for the info re 2.x... Any idea as to 1.x and not plugging a cable into WAN while bridging 2 OPTs? I hope to try it tomorrow in any case. 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
