Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:

    > Interesting.  4 interfaces in 2 clusters.

I have a DSL connection with multiple static IP addresses at home.
The rl0/xl0 cluster is so that I can have my main home machine appear
to be directly on the Internet, even though in fact it is sitting
behind the bridge (which also functions as a firewall).

The pcn0/ed0 cluster is for the kids' machines, so they can access
services (printing, Samba, and a SquidGuard web proxy) on the bridge/
firewall machine, but without needing public IP addresses or having
any direct access to the Internet at large.  "ed0" is a conventional
Ethernet card; "pcn0" does HomePNA (Ethernet over in-house phone
wiring).  Right now, both kids' machines are on HomePNA, but I hope
eventually to move one or both of them to regular 10baseT if I can
manage to install some CAT-5 wiring in our house.

    > Do you have the same problem in the 2nd cluster?

The kids' machines (on pcn0) have no problem contacting the bridge.
I don't currently have anything at all connected to ed0.

    > Do you have the same problem without clustering?  I.e., make
    > the bridge do all 4 interfaces at once.

I haven't tried this, and (for security reasons, see above), I really
don't want to try it.

    > What happens when you assign the IP to xl0 instead of rl0?

Good question.  I'll try that.

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