Date: 03 Jan 2004 13:05:18 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Scott Renna" <srenna@vdbmusic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with 2 nics in same box Message-ID: <44oetkj4bl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c3d21a$d3cd36d0$0201a8c0@mars> References: <000001c3d21a$d3cd36d0$0201a8c0@mars>
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"Scott Renna" <srenna@vdbmusic.com> writes: > Hello List, > > I am having some difficulty in getting my xl0 and xl1 3com cards to work > the way I'd like. I'm running 5.1 Release and I'm basically trying to > have one interface with no IP address(specifying it as such in > /etc/rc.conf as ifconfig_xl1="up") And I'd like to have the other(xl0) > to have an IP address of my Internal Network. The purpose of this setup > is to sniff traffic with the interface that has no IP address and allow > for management and reporting over the interface that has an IP > associated with the Internal network. > > For some reason, this is just not working for me at all. I've tried to > configure via rc.conf and this fails to work. I've also tried assigning > an RFC 1918 address to the interface I want sniffing as this traffic > should not be routable, but it doesn't seem to work. > > Can anyone make a suggestion? > > Here's what my rc.conf looks like: > > Hello List, > > I am having some difficulty in getting my xl0 and xl1 3com cards to work > the way I'd like. I'm running 5.1 Release and I'm basically trying to > have one interface with no IP address(specifying it as such in > /etc/rc.conf as ifconfig_xl1="up") And I'd like to have the other(xl0) > to have an IP address of my Internal Network. The purpose of this setup > is to sniff traffic with the interface that has no IP address and allow > for management and reporting over the interface that has an IP > associated with the Internal network. > > Here's the first few lines of my /etc/rc.conf > > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" > hostname="charon" > ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_x11="up" > > Will this accomplish what I'm trying to do successfully? Just checking the obvious: you have bridging enabled, right? [As in the "Bridging" chapter of the Handbook.] -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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