[rescue] FDDI <-> ethernet

Big Endian rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Sep 27 14:07:24 CDT 2001


>Hi All.
>
>I have a quick question. Is it possible to have 2 interfaces in a
>machine both on the same subnet? I have an FDDI card in my U5, and it
>works fine as long as the 2 interfaces are on different nets.  I've
>already set the PROM to use local mac id's, what else do I need to do to
>get it to work on one net? Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but I'm
>getting 8 IPs from my ISP, and want to use them primarily on the fibre,
>but my ISDN router is ethernet, so one machine is going to have to have
>2 IPs and act as a router. Is this even possible?
>
what you REALLY want is for it to act like a bridge.  So that it 
translates the packets directly without altering them.  I don't know 
how to do this in solaris but I know you can do it with linux.  See, 
brian there ARE uses for linux kernels... not for servers but they DO 
have uses.

daniel



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