Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Is there some reason that you are choosing not to use a switch that > > you haven't told us about? > > I have no reason other than I'm trying different network configurations to > learn how to do different things. I already have established a network > config using a switch that did all the things i described earlier, i wanted > to see is it was possible to make it work only using NICs.
Learning is good! I am fully supportive of gaining experience with different configurations. In this case a configuration which might be more generally useful would be a router configuration. Instead of bridging (or bonding) different network cards together something which I often need to do is to set up a route between them. (Windows calls this Internet Sharing.) If you were trying different configurations for the purposes of learning then I would definitely queue up a router configuration. My favorite helper for this is Shorewall. It builds the iptables rules from simpler rules. I like it. Others like other tools. Still others like writing everything in small detail themselves. For something that I think is useful to work through I would look through this documentation and work through the examples there. http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm Bob
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