How Do I Use Linux To Create A Switch From Multiple Ethernet Ports

[yordan 10]

just verify that the routed service is installed and started on you linux box. It's usually installed but not started on most of Linux distro's.The routed daemon is in charge of routing the packets entering a NIC card to the network at the other NIC card.

[borlafu 0]

You just have to do 2 things:

 

1. Give each NIC an IP address (ifconfig).

2. Configure the router's (Linux box) routing tables (route)

 

Use the manual (man) if you need help with those commands.

 

About the IP assingment, you have two options: use 5 IP addresses form your college (one for each NIC), or use 1 IP address from the college in the NIC that connects to their network and 4 private network IP addresses for the other NICs (for example 192.168.1.0/24).

 

In the second case, you sould configure a NAT on the Linux box so those addresses could be translated when connecting to the outside.