Re: [PLUG] Linux Firewall/Router Appliance

[Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>]

jimjawn wrote:

> Are there any rackmount, embeded routing appliances that run on linux?  
> I'm basically looking for a 24 port switch or greater that I can ssh 
> into and add static routes on a per port basis.  Is there anything out 
> there like this for linux?  Alternatively, i could but a full size 
> server and stick as many nics into the PCI/e slots as I can and setup 
> routing per interface, but I feel like this would be overkill and that 
> there would something that would be created for this specific purpose.

Simply put the Linux box on a trunked VLAN port and then it can access 
any VLAN via special network interfaces.. no need to have all those 
network cards. You can then use VLAN's/ports on the switch to be your 
"network cards".

Regards,
Matt
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