Hello
I'd like to configure ethernet bridge between 2 ethernet ports, which
belongs to 2 different PCI card. I've Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 8 installed
on it.
What should I do to reach it?


Any regards are welcome

Do you mean combine to etherner interfaves into 1 for
bandwidth/redundancy purposes?

I use Sun's Trunking 1.3 software to combine 2 copper gig NIC's into 1.
This gives me 2gb bandwidth, instant failover, and round-robin
load-balancing, however, your switch also must support this. (the
switch term for this is port aggregation)

If I remmber right Sun Trunking 1.3 was around $700 per server.

Very clean and robust solution. I have this config on 4 of my
criticalsystems and have never had 1 single issue related to the
trunking.

-chuck

No , it's not for trunking purposes, i'd like to build just ethernet bridge
between 2 port, it's means that these ports
belong to the same broadcast domain, but there are completelt separated from
each other. If U regards
confuguring router between 2 eth. ports, it all happens in IP layer, but in
my exapmle it's nor a router only bridge, which transparently
connect together these ports on MAC leyer only. That's what I want to reach


Any regards R welcome

"Rhugga" <rhugga@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Do you mean combine to etherner interfaves into 1 for
> bandwidth/redundancy purposes?
>
> I use Sun's Trunking 1.3 software to combine 2 copper gig NIC's into 1.
> This gives me 2gb bandwidth, instant failover, and round-robin
> load-balancing, however, your switch also must support this. (the
> switch term for this is port aggregation)
>
> If I remmber right Sun Trunking 1.3 was around $700 per server.
>
> Very clean and robust solution. I have this config on 4 of my
> criticalsystems and have never had 1 single issue related to the
> trunking.
>
> -chuck
>

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:22:55 +0100, voytec wrote:

> No , it's not for trunking purposes, i'd like to build just ethernet bridge
> between 2 port, it's means that these ports
> belong to the same broadcast domain, but there are completelt separated from
> each other. If U regards
> confuguring router between 2 eth. ports, it all happens in IP layer, but in
> my exapmle it's nor a router only bridge, which transparently
> connect together these ports on MAC leyer only. That's what I want to reach

I read your initial post as well as the followup, but I still don't
understand what you're asking to do.

If you put connect both ports on your Sun server to a switch that has both
the connected ports in the same VLAN, they will be in the same broadcast
domain. But that seems like a waste unless you're going to do something
like IP multipathing on the Sun server.

Saundo
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wsisiz_news <jazdz@wsisiz.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hello
> I'd like to configure ethernet bridge between 2 ethernet ports, which
> belongs to 2 different PCI card. I've Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 8 installed
> on it.
> What should I do to reach it?

IIRC SunScreen (full version) allows it.

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Robert Milkowski <rmilkowski-NO-SPAM@wp-sa.pl> wrote in
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> wsisiz_news <jazdz@wsisiz.edu.pl> wrote:
>> Hello
>> I'd like to configure ethernet bridge between 2 ethernet ports,
>> which
>> belongs to 2 different PCI card. I've Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 8
>> installed on it.
>> What should I do to reach it?
>
> IIRC SunScreen (full version) allows it.
>

Yes, Sunscreen is the answer but it is no longer part of SUN strategy since
Solaris 10. So someday you'll be stuck if you start with Sunscreen
Sadly, with SUN new choice (ipfilter) there is no way to configure a bridge
firewall see : http://tinyurl.com/4z5j3

SUN should rather dedicate some efforts/money to port pf to Solaris.
pf which was developped by the OpenBSD folks is now getting more and more
popular and propose unique features. It's now getting integrated into
FreeBSD and is on the way for NetBSD.

See http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf.html for more information on pf

Another option for bridge firewall is Linux and Ebtables :
http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/

SL/

Steph L <Stephane.Lentz@gmail.com> writes:

>Robert Milkowski <rmilkowski-NO-SPAM@wp-sa.pl> wrote in
>news:cqfgs2$i2r$1@korweta.task.gda.pl:

>> wsisiz_news <jazdz@wsisiz.edu.pl> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> I'd like to configure ethernet bridge between 2 ethernet ports,
>>> which
>>> belongs to 2 different PCI card. I've Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 8
>>> installed on it.
>>> What should I do to reach it?
>>
>> IIRC SunScreen (full version) allows it.

>Yes, Sunscreen is the answer but it is no longer part of SUN strategy since
>Solaris 10. So someday you'll be stuck if you start with Sunscreen
>Sadly, with SUN new choice (ipfilter) there is no way to configure a bridge
>firewall see : http://tinyurl.com/4z5j3

I have heard of people using ipfilter to set up a bridge firewall but don't
have any inside info on how it was done. I'm not sure if was with two
machines running Solaris though that shouldn't make a lot of difference.

>SUN should rather dedicate some efforts/money to port pf to Solaris.
>pf which was developped by the OpenBSD folks is now getting more and more
>popular and propose unique features. It's now getting integrated into
>FreeBSD and is on the way for NetBSD.

I've just started installing NetBSD 2.0 for Sparc on a few machines here
(SS20's and 5's mostly, plus one Sparc LX) and even from my initial
fiddlings it looks like a spectacular leap forward for the NetBSD community.
It's my OS of choice for older systems which don't run Solaris 8 or 9 very
well due to how bad the recent releases are for hogging system resources.

Regards,

Craig.
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