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General Discussion / Re: Setting up a Bridge - Multiple NICs to act like a switch, like a SOHO router

« on: January 31, 2024, 02:43:46 am »

Success.  For anyone interested I found some directions and they worked perfectly.  This post is coming from a bridged 10G X2 plus 1G LAN network.

Credist go to https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=48947.0

This is the instructions and are designed for pfSense but work with a few differences in spots of where the tunables are etc.

1. Assign your additional interfaces and enable them with type 'none'. They will come up as OPT1, OPT2 etc.
2. Switch bridge filtering from the bridge members onto the bridge itself (assuming you don't need to apply firewall rules between devices on the bridge/switch). Go to System: Advanced: System Tunables: and edit the two values.
Change net.link.bridge.pfil_member to 0.
Change net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge to 1.
Apply these changes.
3. Now create a bridge in Interfaces: (assign): Bridges: and add to it the additional interfaces you just created, you can select multiple interfaces by holding Ctrl. I named the bridge 'Switch Configuration' to remind me how I have configured it.
4. Now go to Interfaces: (assign) and change the LAN assignment to bridge0. Save and reconnect your ethernet cable to one of the bridge interfaces. It should come back up, however you will want to make sure you have console access before you do this as if you've done something different you could end up locked out! 
5. Assign the interface that was originally assigned to LAN and enable it with type 'none'. Add it to bridge0 to include it in the 'switch'.

After step 3/4 are done REBOOT.  The bridge should be working.

I love you...I know this may be necrod but this solved my issue.  I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why wifi worked but ethernet didn't.  I have an ap connected to my homebrew 'bridge switch'.  Changing the two settings in tunables fixed this for me.