Re: slack router with bridge

Naw, you didn't miss anything. I probably did. I'm using IPCop right now for 
home lan gateway and I want to shift the cups server over to the gateway box 
since its always on anyway other wise my workstation has to be turned on just 
so someone else can print.

Tried ClarkConnect on the same box but its RH based, doesn't feel right, I'm 
to lazy to learn a new distro, and its slows the 550 mhz/256 mb box down. 
I've installed slack10-2 w/out x and such. It is quicker than the IPCop.

Somehow I just picked uup on bridging the nics and doing snort and ip 
filitering on the bridge.

From your post I take it that it can be done on the gateway box in other than 
bridge mode.

Steven Saner is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> Rick Miles wrote:
> > Maybe I'm compilcating things.
> >
> > I've been on the net and into howtos but have not figure out what happens
> > to eth0 and eth1 in a box when I set up a bridge between them.
> >
> > (1)If they together become br0 then do I have to give br0 and ip address
> > so that lan can access it and wan?
> > (2) or can eth0 and eth1, the the two ends of a bridge (br0),  have there
> > own indivudual ip addresses?
> >
> > I''m looking to use and old box with slack as a gateway with one nic to
> > switch (and onto lan) and one nic to adsl modem in bridge mode. I can
> > already ssh in and can make a connection with pppoe-start
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if you are going to do PPPoE from the
> linux box to your ISP, you do not need to bridge your ethernet interfaces
> togeter. The PPPoE will use one interface and establish the PPP link over
> it, and the other will connect to your network. Your machine will then
> route between the interfaces.
>
> Steve

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