Re: creating a netbsd router

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

Yes, it's possible. I did it with a raspberry pi for a short time.

As others have stated, bonding and bridging are 2 separate things...
Hopefully you know which one you want. Bridge is like creating a
switch out of some ports (like the LAN ports of a home router),
bonding (agr) is for attaching multiple interfaces to a switch
(aggregation of links between devices). And the switch needs to be
configured for it as well.

Follow the instructions to set up the kernel to forward packets:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-net-practice.html#chap-net-practice-ipnat

This is a bit old, you're expected to use npf these days. I tried it a
few times but I haven't given it the proper time/attention to learn
the syntax. I set up a few simple looking statements that had
unpredictable results so I gave up basically. Probably should try it
again.

My real interest in this is IPv6... One of these days...

Andy

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Derrick Lobo <derrick.lobo%givex.com@localhost> wrote:
> I have a device with 8 network interface,so wondering if I can set this up
> as my router/switch
>
> I would like to create eth0 as the WAN interface and the remaining eth1-6 as
> the LAN interface so that I can connect multiple switches and devices
> directly on the 7 remaining ports.. is vlan, bridging the way to go .. linux
> uses bonding and im not sure if freebsds lagg is the same thing.. Anyone can
> provide information or link on how I can achieve this.
>
> So eth0  would have a public Ip while the rest ports would have one LAN IP
> whichis basically a 192.168.0.1  ip  and Irun DHCP namedb etc on these
> interface to support my LAN.
>
> Thanks
>
> Derrick Lobo