On Tuesday 31 December 2002 00:14, Martin A. Brown wrote: > Hi there, > > It's a good thought, Daniel, but he is restricted by his /30 network. > This means he only has two IPs, hence his need for a bridging device. > > [ Gilles, you should be able to enter a static route from each of these > hosts to an RFC1918 address on the bridge itself (as Stef Coene had > suggested), and per http://bridge.sourceforge.net/docs/bridge.html. > the ARP will work just fine--no need for static entries in ARP tables= =2E ] > > Setting the problem of the tiny network aside, I'm interested in your > suggestion, Daniel, that he use the same IP on both interfaces of the > box--I've not tried that before. > > Do you have an example config? > Have you seen any problems with this configuration? I tried it once on a firewall with 3 interfaces with the same ip-address = and=20 it worked very well. You just have to be sure you configure the right=20 routing. Stef --=20 stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
