{"id":9197,"date":"2008-01-27T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/27\/interfaces-galore\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:28","slug":"interfaces-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/27\/interfaces-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfaces Galore!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to hide this behind a cut because it’s just a bit of bragging \/ dorkyness about having lots of NICs in one box:<\/p>\n

This is nifty:<\/p>\n

# brconfig
\nbridge0: flags=0<>
\n priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp
\n fxp4 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
\n port 5 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
\n fxp3 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
\n port 4 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
\n fxp2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
\n port 3 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
\n fxp1 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
\n port 2 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
\n fxp0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
\n port 1 ifpriority 0 ifcost 0
\n Addresses (max cache: 100, timeout: 240):
\n#<\/tt><\/p>\n

Which is comprised of:<\/p>\n

# ifconfig
\nlo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33208
\n groups: lo
\n inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
\n inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
\n inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
\nfxp0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
\n lladdr 00:04:ac:a3:6c:ce
\n media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
\n status: no carrier
\nfxp1: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
\n lladdr 00:50:8b:f9:de:62
\n media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
\n status: no carrier
\nfxp2: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
\n lladdr 00:50:8b:f9:de:63
\n media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
\n status: no carrier
\nfxp3: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
\n lladdr 00:08:02:3d:34:e4
\n media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
\n status: no carrier
\nfxp4: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
\n lladdr 00:08:02:3d:34:e5
\n media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
\n status: no carrier
\ngem0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
\n lladdr 00:0a:27:af:cf:08
\n groups: egress
\n media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
\n status: active
\n inet6 fe80::20a:27ff:feaf:cf08%gem0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
\n inet 192.168.0.196 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
\nenc0: flags=0<> mtu 1536
\nbridge0: flags=0<> mtu 1500
\n groups: bridge
\n#<\/tt><\/p>\n

Now I just need to get another 4-port Intel NIC (fxp<\/a>) and I’ll have what I need for a switch-in-a-PC with capabilities for per-port monitoring, firewalling, etc. I guess I’ll have to get some graphs going or something. Maybe I’ll finally have a use for Cacti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hmm, I will have to crossover-wire a punch panel for connecting each machine to, as the ports don’t auto-cross, but that shouldn’t be difficult.<\/p>\n

Today I completely stripped the PowerMac G4 AGP down to plastics, dusted everything off, vacuumed out the fuzz, and replaced the fan in the power supply with an old Papst near-silent fan that I had left over from a rather aged computer. Thus far I’ve also unplugged the video card fan, the large case fan, the CD-ROM, and the Zip drive. It’s now a really, really quiet Mac. Since it’s not really displaying much, and I might even pull the card for production use.<\/p>\n

I ordered a plug-right-into-the-IDE-port CF adapter from eBay which supports DMA transfers, so hopefully that’ll work good for my main drive.<\/p>\n

So, hopefully within the next couple of weeks my network at home will go from having an Airport Extreme<\/a> handling everything back to a OpenBSD box at the core of it all, with the Airport Extreme as just an access point \/ WDS bridge for the Airport Expresses, and no need for a switch. This has the potential to be pretty nifty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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