low on network ports but lots of extra ethernet cards

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Wed Apr 12 17:39:38 PDT 2006


On 13.04.2006, at 01:48, Terry Tree wrote:
I'm wondering is there way to turn a DragonFly machine filled up with
network cards into a small switch ?
Back in the days this was called a [multi-port] bridge.  Just set up 
bridging (yah, I know, docs are a bit sucky at the moment, but I just 
can't seem to write sentences that make sense).

cheers
  simon
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