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What I want is a computer with 2 ethernet ports 1 attached to a router the 2nd to a gigabit switch. All I want is this computer to act as a hub; not a router / dhcp server with NAT. I know all about ip masquerading, firewall stuff. I don’t want a bridge (I need the computer to be able to view machines from both interfaces) all I want is router -> computer A eth0 -> eth1 -> switch -> computer B such that computer B gets all the dns, dhcp info from the router. Or is this even possible? I’ve wasted 2 days with google with no success. Maybe someone here might know…
Unless you got a two port switch (Do they even make those?) it a waste of time. Plug both computers and the router to the gigabit switch. The switch and the router will do the rest.
problem is the router only has 1 ethernet cable that’s under ground that goes 70 meters) from the router to a gigabit switch that then passes it on another 60 meters to where all the computers are.
linuxgnuru wrote:What I want is a computer with 2 ethernet ports 1 attached to a router the 2nd to a gigabit switch. All I want is this computer to act as a hub; not a router / dhcp server with NAT. I know all about ip masquerading, firewall stuff. I don’t want a bridge (I need the computer to be able to view machines from both interfaces) all I want is router -> computer A eth0 -> eth1 -> switch -> computer B such that computer B gets all the dns, dhcp info from the router. Or is this even possible? I’ve wasted 2 days with google with no success. Maybe someone here might know…This sounds like exactly the use case for a bridge. Why do you think it wouldn’t work? Also, which distro is on the computer in the middle?
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