On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:13:35AM -0500, Mike Leddy wrote: > I would like to be able to construct a box that can > promiscuosly sense traffic on a number of standard 100Mbps > NICs and concentrate this traffic on an outgoing 1Gbps > interface. > > Essentially any packets seen on the input nics would be > copied and sent out unaltered on the output interface. > > Does anyone know how I can achieve this ? > > At the kernel level I have looked for inspiration in the > bonding driver, bridging and netfilter but so far I've > drawn a blank. > > Would it be practical to do this in user space with three > our four input NICS and heavy traffic ? I would use CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE to send directly from one NIC to another... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
