netra t1 as a firewall

Xavier Beaudouin kiwi at oav.net
Tue Dec 28 07:44:32 PST 2004


Le 21 déc. 04, à 07:27, Andrew Thomson a écrit :

> All,
>
> This may be kind of a loose comment but I thought I'd float it as most
> of my experience is with i386 freebsd not sparc.
>
> Basically at a site I have installed a Netra T1 as a firewall - worked
> out well as it had a lot of nics in it, hme[0-5].
>
> I originally installed 5.2.1 on it but soon discovered that the hme
> driver in 5.2.1 didn't allocate different mac addresses! Upgraded to 
> 5.3
> and that problem disappeared.

It can if you set "local-mac-address?" on prom to true :)

/Xavier
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