dpurgert wrote:
hotelsunlimited wrote:We have the Comcast fiber connect to eth7 (SFP) and want to use eth0 to eth5 to connect other routers to these, each one getting one static IP from the pool.
This is a bad idea -- bridging disables offload and therefore sends throughput through the floor.
Either
- use 1:1 NAT (and CGNAT / RFC6598 address space) and put each downstream router in a private network, OR
- put the /29 on eth1, and then use a basic dumb swtich to hand off to those downstream routers.
I put the 24 port below the router on eth0. My laptop plugged into the switch now, and assigning a public IP gave me network access. However, DNS resolution is painfully slow. I did not bridge the eth0-eth5 ports.