On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I am switching to a business Internet service with Mediacom. > Unfortunately, they want to bond each public IP with a mac address. This > is less than desirable, but I don't have anyone in the area that can > provide a better solution with the bandwidth I need. > > I spoke with a few people about setting up a firewall with three > external interfaces-one per IP. It seems that might work, but I am > partial to my IPcop firewall. > > The addresses will all be assigned via DHCP. I'm wondering if I could > just create aliases on the red interface of IPCOP, and set different > hardware addresses per sub interface. I haven't got it to work yet, and > assume I have something wrong in my syntax. Is there a way to create the > three interfaces this way? Maybe there is a better way to do this??? > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > In their forums it seems that this is not possible on IPCOP: http://www.ipcops.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10294 I've used pfSense in a number of deployments and have been thrilled with it. Does Multi-WAN very well. I haven't done multi-wan with only one external interface; you probably need a NIC per IP. I (and probably most on this list) have fistfuls of spare 10/100 cards that could be donated to your cause. -- Donovan Niesen