[nflug] Routers switches and the urge to get very vocal with a Dell tech support rep

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For my network firewall here we've been using shorewall for years (now 
with portknocking!) and have 2 nics, 1 for external, 1 for internal. 
Although the external/internal thing doesnt matter, to have assign 
multiple IP's to 1 nic, they take the form of eth0:0, eth0:1 and on and 
on. I have never heard of this 4 nic limit as you mentioned, I would 
doubt it, at least with modern kernels.

Richard Hubbard wrote:
> A number of months ago, I purchased a Dell 6224, layer 3 switch, with 
> the idea of using it to break my 150+ machine network into subnets, 
> primarily so that some tech in a lab wouldn't shut down the network 
> with a broadcast storm.
>
> According to Dell, this is what I should be able to do.
>
> According to me, every set of instructions we got to do a simple 
> "break your network into 8 IP subnets" has not worked.
>
> Which brings up 3 possible solutions
> 1. Beat a Dell rep with a stick until he gets an engineer who is not 
> doing a visual inspection of his own lower intestine.
> 2. Bite the bullet, and get recommendations for something that is 
> advertised as a "real router". Gigabit ethernet is a requirement.
> 3. Build a cheap box and make a router using linux.
>
> Any advice with the above would be helpful. Specifically regarding 2 
> (What can I get that is inexpensive, does Gigabit ethernet, and 
> doesn't necessarily include a bunch of crap I don't want, like ISDN, 
> firewalls, proxys, etc), or 3 (Inexpensive motherboards/rack 
> mounts/PCIe Network cards, etc).
> One thing I am curious about, I seem to remember from long long ago, 
> that linux only supported 4 network cards. Is this the case for real, 
> or just a bad memory?
>
> Thanks!
>  
> <span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span>
> ATTO Technology Inc
>
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