From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 21:36:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE6816A420 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:36:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79F243D72 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:36:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 25202 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2006 21:36:11 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Feb 2006 21:36:11 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3489828439; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:36:09 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: rkfrancis1@adelphia.net References: <000401c62a00$bb97eb60$0a2e567e@monster4c> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Feb 2006 16:36:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000401c62a00$bb97eb60$0a2e567e@monster4c> Message-ID: <44y80onp9y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebook multi-homed question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:36:15 -0000 "Robert Ken Francis" writes: > Hello, > This is probably a common hardware configuration. I have a wireless NIC in my notebook > and a built-in NIC. My wireless NIC is 10 times slower than my built-in NIC so I prefer > to just plug in the built-in NIC when I can. > > I would like to have them both going to the same router. In my Windows partition I have > a "Network Bridge" to bridge together the NICs. The soft bridge has its own IP address. > The advantage is that I don't have to configure anything or do anything. It just works. > Is there a software bridge like this in FreeBSD? if_bridge(4) should do most of what you need, and even implements spanning tree, but it might take a little work to make sure that the wired connection gets the traffic when present... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/