Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:13:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Maloney <adam@whee.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual swich Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0504191008330.29581@titan> In-Reply-To: <42652154.6040904@centtech.com> References: <014201c544f2$5019a700$9f90a8c0@DONATAS> <42652154.6040904@centtech.com>
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: > Donatas wrote: >> hello, >> >> are there any solutions for emulating a network switch between network >> interfaces under FreeBSD 5.3? >> i cannot use ng_hub because it does not filter packets by their mac >> addresses... >> the purpose is switching between ngeth0,ngeth1 and em0. >> >> any ideas are welcome > > Is this what you want? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html I had a similar need a few months ago, and found two other projects that might be helpful: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html and picobsd(8) http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/click/ I had trouble building the correct configuration with Click. I ended up using a picobsd floppy. Easy-peasy. HTH, Adam
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