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

[Ken Seefried]

Brian Costello writes: 

> 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. 

You've got a terminology breakdown.  Routing is not switching, and vice 
versa.  Switches are bridges in practice, so to do what you propose, you 
need to either: 

1) Have each device on it's own network and route between them, or
2) Figure out how to bridge interfaces in Solaris (I don't know if you can). 

Suggestion: get a 10/100 switch.  They're dirt cheap.