Date: 06 Feb 2006 16:36:09 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: rkfrancis1@adelphia.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebook multi-homed question Message-ID: <44y80onp9y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000401c62a00$bb97eb60$0a2e567e@monster4c> References: <000401c62a00$bb97eb60$0a2e567e@monster4c>
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"Robert Ken Francis" <rkfrancis1@adelphia.net> writes: > Hello, > This is probably a common hardware configuration. I have a wireless NIC in my notebook > and a built-in NIC. My wireless NIC is 10 times slower than my built-in NIC so I prefer > to just plug in the built-in NIC when I can. > > I would like to have them both going to the same router. In my Windows partition I have > a "Network Bridge" to bridge together the NICs. The soft bridge has its own IP address. > The advantage is that I don't have to configure anything or do anything. It just works. > Is there a software bridge like this in FreeBSD? if_bridge(4) should do most of what you need, and even implements spanning tree, but it might take a little work to make sure that the wired connection gets the traffic when present... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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