[Suns-at-Home] Use SUN box as a network switch

[Zoltan HERPAI]

Collecting the interfaces into a bridge port would do what you want - 
however, I'm not sure how this can be set up in Solaris 8/9, but you 
could do it easily with Linux and bridge-utils. My $0.02.

-w-

BTW, why do you need such a noisy 4-port switch? :)

Brian Costello wrote:
> I have a really odd request and hope someone has done this. Is it 
> feasible to turn an Ultra 1 into a simple 4 port network switch with a 
> QFE card installed? I am not sure how to configure the routing table 
> such that the devices attached to the QFE ports will be fully visable 
> on the rest of the network. The devices attached the the QFE ports  
> will  be on the same subnet at the main network which the main network 
> port will be attached (HME0). For example:
>
> Ultra 1 HME0: 192.168.0.20
>    PC attached to QFE0: 192.168.0.100
>    Printer attached to QFE1: 192.168.0.101
>    Printer attached to QFE2: 192.168.0.102
>    Printer attached to QFE2: 192.168.0.103
>
> The Ultra 1 is running Solaris 8 or 9.
>
> I do not know if the U1 will route traffic by default to the attached 
> devices or if special routes will have to be added. I will be using 
> cross over network cables to make the connection. Any suggestions are 
> welcome (other than why I want to such a stupid thing).
>
> Brian P. Costello               costellob@asme.org
> San Francisco Bay Area
>
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