Hi Nick, this sounds great. That's exactly what I was searching for. I wonder why I didn't hat this idea ;)
Anyway, thanks for your reply! best regards, Marian On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:58:13 -0600, Nick Templeton <n...@nicktempleton.com> wrote: > I'm doing what you're describing with a couple 4-port NICs. I assign an > IP to one of the interfaces so dhcpd can run on that, then bridge all > the interfaces together. Works like a charm. > > Your config files would look something like - > > hostname.rl1: > inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.255 > > hostname.rl2 > up > > bridgename.bridge0: > add rl1 > add rl2 > up > > Then add dhcpd_flags="rl1" to rc.conf.local, dhcpd will respond to > requests on either interface since it's a bridge. > > -Nick > > Marian Hettwer wrote: >> Hi All and a happy new year, >> >> got a short question here. >> I'm building a home router from a blue box (embedded pc), which has 3 > nics >> (rl0, 1, 2). >> Internet drops in via dhcp client on rl0. Now I got 2 NICs left and I'd >> like to use them similar like a hub. Just use a cross over cable and > plug >> in 2 more devices which can then talk through that router. >> >> My first try was to bridge rl1 and rl2, but then again, I want to use a >> dhcp server on both interfaces and it seems like I can't do that, since > I >> can't give an ip on bridge0 and I wouldn't want to give an IP to rl1 and >> rl2. >> >> Any ideas to that setup? >> I thought about giving rl1 an IP adress and rl2 one from another > network. >> Like rl1 with 192.168.1 and rl2 with 192.168.2 and then run dhcpd on rl1 >> and rl2 serving both subnets. >> However, that doesn't look like a good approach to me. >> >> Any other thoughts on that issue? >> >> Ah yes, it's OpenBSD 4.4 release :) >> >> best regards, >> Marian >> >> PS.: please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list.
