Re: Make a linux Switch
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 04:53:03PM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote:
> My understanding of switches was that they could segment the network. If this is
> what you are after yes Linux can do it. We have a machine at work that has 4
> cards in it and it segments the class C as follows:
>
> .1 - router
> .2 - eth0
> .3 - .31 - reserved
>
> .32 - eth1
> .33 - .63 - servers
>
> .64 - eth2
> .65 - .127 - NOC
>
> .128 - eth3
> .129 - 255 - Monkeys
>
> This is very simple to achieve with route tables on the machine in question
> (Which also acts as a firewall)
This make me realize that linux can do a layer 3(!?) switch for tcp/ip and
with firewall capabilities. To do this, just rearrange the routing table and
enable proxy-arp for every NIC.
This is a quite nice thing to do.(just for tcp/ip)
--
Bye
Carlos Barros.
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