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i have seen a few 5 port switxhes that are very small. you may be able to mount on inside your box. this doesn't help with the trafic monitoring, but would maybe acomplish everything else you are looking for http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2538032 this is just an example. I am not saying you sould or sould not go with netgear. It is a very small switch that could may go inside a case in the place of a network card. -----Original Message----- From: mtnbkr [mailto:waa dash m0n0wall at revpol dot com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:38 AM To: Paul Rae Cc: m0n0wall - Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Bridge Multiple Interfaces Paul Rae wrote: > I currently have a Soekris 4801 with addon card giving it a total of 5 interfaces. > > eth0 - WAN > eth1 - LAN > eth2 - Wifi > eth3 - unused > eth4 - unused > > Currently the LAN and Wifi interfaces are bridged and all devices run on the same subnet. That is not required, right? > I have now had the chance to get cat5 laid to all of the AP's, so plan on changing things so they run as pure AP's to increase throughput. > > My original plan has been to stick an AP on each of the unused ports on the soekris and bridge them all to the LAN interface, but it seems from my testing you can only bridge one interface. > > So the question is what is the best and easiest way to do this? Why not just create a subnet for each WiFi interface: INT NET IP SUBNET --- --- --------- eth0 WAN x.x.x.x/yy eth1 LAN 192.168.0.0/24 eth2 WiFi_1 192.168.1.0/24 eth3 WiFi_2 192.168.2.0/24 eth4 WiFi_3 192.168.3.0/24 Then, if you like, you can use m0n0wall to simply pass all traffic between your subnets, OR you can apply some firewall rules between subnets and/or the Internet if you are paranoid like me. :) P.S. I'm the guy who has his game consoles on a 'games' VLAN, completely firewalled from the rest of my internal subnets - same goes for my IP cameras on the 'camera' VLAN, and my wireless APs on the 'wireless' VLAN. It seems to me however, based on your explanation of the current configuration that you might want full access to the LAN and Internet from the wireless clients but the above method without blocking rules would still work nicely for you. -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch __________ NOD32 2831 (20080129) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com |