[ale] Networking/Bridging question

[Joseph Knapka]

Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:

> I have a machine with 2 NIC's and I want to attach a
> windows server to the second NIC.  I did not want to have to do any
> form of routing, so I was looking at bridging to solve this problem
> 
> 
> switch -------- eth0 [192.168.1.7] eth1 ----- [192.168.1.6]
> 
> IF I place the 2 NICs in promisc mode, will I be able
> to ping 192.168.16 from same a machine on 192.168.1.7 eth0 segement?

No.

> 192.168.1.7 will not be a gateway,  It is just a development machine
> that has 2 RTL8139 cards.

You will need a kernel with bridging enabled, and the associated
userspace tools. A Google for "Linux Ethernet bridging" will net
you tons of useful links.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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