On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:34 PM, drew Roberts <zotz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Chris Buechler <cbuech...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, drew Roberts <zotz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> What I am looming to do is set up box with 3 nics. I want to bridge >>> two of them but not assign IP addresses to those nics. I want to >>> (possibly) set up an ip address in the third nic for management >>> purposes. >>> >>> I want this to allow me to drop the box inline anywhere on a network >>> using the two bridged nics and have traffic pass through the box >>> without needing to change anything network wise. I want to be able to >>> shape and possibly filter traffic passing the bridge. >>> >>> From my initial reading a week or two ago I thought pfsense would be >>> able to do this for me. I brought up my first box with pfsense this >>> morning but it seems to want ip addresses where I don't want to put >>> any. >>> >>> Am I misunderstanding something, or is there a documented workaround >>> that I can use to do what I want? >>> >> >> In 1.2.x, LAN and WAN must have IPs. OPT interfaces can be left >> IP-less by bridging them, or putting "none" into the IP address box. > > If that is the case, can I use LAN as the management interface, Do not > give a nic to the WAN but define the IP for it. Give the two nic I > want to bridge to OPT1 and OPT2? > > Is this expected to change in 2.x? >
In 2.0 you don't have to set an IP on any interface (though if you set them all to "none", you can't get in and change anything anymore of course). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
