B_o_B wrote: >Tuesday, June 29, 2004 @ 9:01:35 PM Central Standard Time > >Hello, and a good day to you all. I desperately needed to connect a >10Mbps Hub to a 100Mbps Hub. Busted out some junk, and mounted a >Linux 2-port Ethernet Bridge on my wall..... > > > to expand on capabilities on the linux bridge, besides filtering with iptables, there is a tool called ebtables, that allows to filter/mangle packets on the datalink layer based on network layer info( ip addresses) and at my previous job I`ve built kinda like a layer 3 switch that would redirect packets on layer 2 according to the routes fed to it via BGP. that thing pushed 150 mbits for a year and worked fine :) cheap replacement until we got money for cisco 3550. you could also do funky STP stuff with it too. linux bridge is a very powerfull shit, once you have some crazy application for it :) >http://b-o-b.homelinux.com/projects/ethernet_bridge/ > >End Communication, > >Robert De Mars >Lat. 45:09n >Long. 93:18w >http://b-o-b.homelinux.com > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list