[opensuse] ethernet bridging questions/help
I have a new box which has two GB ethernet connections and would like to bridge them into one. Is this inadvisable? If so, why? I did: yast --> network settings --> added bridge 0 dynamic address set bridged devices eth0 eth1 allowed yast to set eth# to 0.0.0.0 finished I have no outside access I have no local access no network remove br0 and set eth[0/1] to dynamic address and restart network and have access but no bridge. What am I doing wrong? tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 03/24/2011 10:54 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have a new box which has two GB ethernet connections and would like to bridge them into one. Is this inadvisable? If so, why?
Not sure. If you are trying to combine them as one then you are looking for bonding http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Bonding HTH Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 03/24/2011 06:12 PM, Togan Muftuoglu pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 03/24/2011 10:54 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have a new box which has two GB ethernet connections and would like to bridge them into one. Is this inadvisable? If so, why?
Not sure. If you are trying to combine them as one then you are looking for bonding
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Bonding
HTH
Togan
And, if you are looking for this to give you a faster connection to the internet at home why bother unless you are bringing a DS3 or faster link into your house. :-)) OTOH in a data server environment it makes good sense. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> [03-24-11 18:27]:
And, if you are looking for this to give you a faster connection to the internet at home why bother unless you are bringing a DS3 or faster link into your house. :-))
OTOH in a data server environment it makes good sense.
Well, I am running a separate machine as a server but the ports on this machine would not help that. tks for the info -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
And, if you are looking for this to give you a faster connection to the internet at home why bother unless you are bringing a DS3 or faster link into your house. :-))
A DS3 is 45 Mb/s, so even a single 100 Mb/s ethernet port is more than fast enough to keep it busy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@opensuse.org> [03-24-11 18:13]:
On 03/24/2011 10:54 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have a new box which has two GB ethernet connections and would like to bridge them into one. Is this inadvisable? If so, why?
Not sure. If you are trying to combine them as one then you are looking for bonding
tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
I have a new box which has two GB ethernet connections and would like to bridge them into one. Is this inadvisable? If so, why?
A bridge is like a autoforwarder. Packets coming in one port go straight out the other. I don't think that's what you want, or is it? Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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