Hi all,
I run a freeBSD router at home and I love it, I'm always finding new ways to expand my understanding of networking.
I recently bought a 4x SFP+ 10GB Chelsio card to play with, and I'm coming up with ways to use it.
I already have 4x GBE ports lagg'd together in lagg0. I then apply a few VLANs on top of that (lagg0.30, lagg0.40, etc)
Would it be crazy or ill-advised to move to a design where I bridge cxgbe0-3 with lagg0, and then create the VLANs on bridge0?
My thinking is I want to use the 10GB ports as the backbone to my "infrastructure" (home server, VM server, etc) and have my client machines (phones/laptops/desktops) hang off the lagg0 side.
Would this work? Would broadcasts from the lagg0 side reach the cxgbe0 side?
What if I want a VLAN that doesn't span over the bridge? For example, a "core" vlan that just the 10gb hosts would see?
A diagram of what I'm hoping to accomplish, in case it helps:
Scenario 1: 'F' is a file server, 'A' is a desktop. I want 'A' to be able to find 'F' using network discovery protocols (netbios, zeroconf, etc)
Scenario 2: 'F' is a file server, 'G' is a vm server. I want 'G' to be able to talk to 'F' on a private VLAN set up sending backups.
I'm open to any ideas and questions!
thanks!
I run a freeBSD router at home and I love it, I'm always finding new ways to expand my understanding of networking.
I recently bought a 4x SFP+ 10GB Chelsio card to play with, and I'm coming up with ways to use it.
I already have 4x GBE ports lagg'd together in lagg0. I then apply a few VLANs on top of that (lagg0.30, lagg0.40, etc)
Would it be crazy or ill-advised to move to a design where I bridge cxgbe0-3 with lagg0, and then create the VLANs on bridge0?
My thinking is I want to use the 10GB ports as the backbone to my "infrastructure" (home server, VM server, etc) and have my client machines (phones/laptops/desktops) hang off the lagg0 side.
Would this work? Would broadcasts from the lagg0 side reach the cxgbe0 side?
What if I want a VLAN that doesn't span over the bridge? For example, a "core" vlan that just the 10gb hosts would see?
A diagram of what I'm hoping to accomplish, in case it helps:
Code:
/---ROUTER------------------------------------------\
/----------------------BRIDGE 0-----------------------\
| lagg0 | cxgbe0 | cxgbe1 | cxgbe2 | cxgbe3 |
\-----------------------------------------------------/
/// \ \ \ \
[ switch ] F G H I
/ | | | \
A B C D EScenario 1: 'F' is a file server, 'A' is a desktop. I want 'A' to be able to find 'F' using network discovery protocols (netbios, zeroconf, etc)
Scenario 2: 'F' is a file server, 'G' is a vm server. I want 'G' to be able to talk to 'F' on a private VLAN set up sending backups.
I'm open to any ideas and questions!
thanks!