On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:35:53PM +0200, Oeschger Patrick wrote: > > On May 15, 2011, at 15:25, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:27PM +0200, Oeschger Patrick wrote: > >> i was playing with virtual routing on openbsd4.9 recently > >> first results using vlans are impressive > >> now i am asking myself if virtual routing is possible > >> - without using dedicated physical interfaces for each routing domain > >> - without using dedicated vlans for each routing domain > >> > >> idea behind this: > >> i have a network appliance with 3 interface (int/ext/mgmt) > >> i want to configure 5 routing domains > >> i have limited number of physical interfaces > >> i do not want to use vlans > >> > >> so what i would need in this case is something like a virtual ethernet > >> interface > >> - which can be bound to a physical ethernet interface (similar to vlans) > >> - and the virtual virtual ethernet interface should be assignable to a > >> routing > >> domain > >> > >> any ideas? > >> guess aliases of an interface are not assignable to a routing domain...(?) > >> maybe something in progress in the dev tree? > >> > >> many thanx > >> /pat > >> > > > > vether(4) ? > > > > .... Ken > > > > well... > i guess vether(4) cannot be attachted to a physical interface > maybe i'm wrong here(?) > had a glimplse at vether(4) yesterday > /pat
vether need to be put together with the relevant physical interface with a bridge. Not sure if it can do what you need, but 'virtual ethernet' is what you mused you might need. :-) .... Ken
