This is a great suggestion. Thanks Stuart. Much appreciated -b.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 14:57 Stuart Longland <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote: > On 25/09/18 10:00, Bogdan Kulbida wrote: > > Please don’t judge that hard, but I’m trying to see if I can set-up a > > network gateway with one of the old’ish servers I have here. It was > running > > OBSD just fine for a looong time but has only one network interface. > > > > It does have few extra USB ports, ta-da... > > Anyway, what USB network interface would you recommend that would run > > smoothly with the OBSD 6.3? > > Another possibility is if you don't need the full link speed, you can > use a managed switch and set up 802.1Q. > > Make the ports at both ends trunk ports and multiplex as many Ethernet > segments as you like. > > I use this approach with a TS-7670 industrial PC which has only one > 100Mbps Ethernet interface to have it route between a DMZ and a > management network, and of course, indirectly two of my OpenBSD-based > virtual machines do this (with the Linux host doing the 802.1Q stuff). > -- > Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) > > I haven't lost my mind... > ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. > > -- --- Best regards, Bogdan Kulbida Founder and CEO, Konstankino LLC <http://konstankino.com> +1.802.793.8295
