From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:23:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] QoS (HTB) without IP address Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 31 December 2002 00:14, Martin A. Brown wrote: > Hi there, > > It's a good thought, Daniel, but he is restricted by his /30 network. > This means he only has two IPs, hence his need for a bridging device. > > [ Gilles, you should be able to enter a static route from each of these > hosts to an RFC1918 address on the bridge itself (as Stef Coene had > suggested), and per http://bridge.sourceforge.net/docs/bridge.html. > the ARP will work just fine--no need for static entries in ARP tables. ] > > Setting the problem of the tiny network aside, I'm interested in your > suggestion, Daniel, that he use the same IP on both interfaces of the > box--I've not tried that before. > > Do you have an example config? > Have you seen any problems with this configuration? I tried it once on a firewall with 3 interfaces with the same ip-address and it worked very well. You just have to be sure you configure the right routing. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/