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How to enable other physical ports for basic LAN access like a switch

Lowell Picklyk

On an XG 125 there are 8 ports and I need to enable one additional port with LAN access but no IP assigned to it.  That is, I want it to behave like a switch on the LAN, like we might find on a basic router (extra ports used as LAN switch).  What's the best way of going about this?  Seems I'm required to assign an IP but I don't want that port to have an IP.



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  • 0 in reply to Lowell Picklyk

    When creating a bridge, you will only need a single interface IP eg. Port 1 - 172.16.16.16 /24  and let's say you will bridge Ports 2 and 3 to Port 1, with this example an additional IP is not needed anymore, they will use the same IP and subnet of Port 1, and the bridged interface/s will be as a Layer 2

     

    hope it helps, let us know how it goes.

     

     

    Regards,

     

    Rap

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  • 0 in reply to Ashen1

    You make sense, but when going to create a new bridge the IPv4/Netmask is a required field.  The KB instructions also show that an IP has to be entered.

  • 0 in reply to Lowell Picklyk

    Hi Lowell,

     

    Yes, an IP address and netmask is required when creating a new one, but when bridging to and existing interface it's not needed.

     

    is your goal to create a new interface with no IP settings and bridge certain ports to it? or create a bridge interface with a different IP address?

     

     

    Regards,

    Rap

     

     

  • 0 in reply to Ashen1

     Thanks for pursuing this with me.  The customer (small business) just needs 1 more LAN port available and their switch is full, don't want to buy a second managed switch for them just for 1 more port, being they will have absolutely no more devices added to the server room (the network room is in another area).  So the goal is to just make 1 of the 6 remaining available ports on the XG 125 available for the less-critical device I want connected to the network.

    When I go to create a new bridge, I select Port1 (LAN, with IP on the network as the network's gateway) and Port4, and select LAN zone, there's still a required IPv4 field and if I leave it blank I can't save the bridge as it says, "You must enter a valid IP for IP Address".  Here's a screenshot:

  • 0 in reply to Lowell Picklyk

    Hi Lowell,

     

    I think I'm getting your goal, you may try to put and IP for that bridge interface, a usable IP from within the specific network you are trying to bridge

     

    For example: network is 192.168.1.x /24, you can configure the bridge interface IP like this 192.168.1.254 /24 for it to have a connectivity to the network you are trying to bridge. 

     

     

    Let me know if i got your setup correctly, you can provide us a detailed network setup if possible. thanks

     

     

    Give it a shot, and let us know how it goes.

     

     

    Regards,

     

    Rap