Solaris

Hello all,

I was trying to hooking up several computers into my openindiana server box, the server box has few RJ45 gigabit ethernet. The desired hierarchy of the network will be shown as on the picture attached. I would like to connect each host into my gigabit ethernet because of me and my brother want to put all our files into this server, hence the speed would be maintained at 1 gb/s (~100mbyte/s file transfer rate), but then we wouldn't be able to join our computers' network together. Came up an idea to bridge the connections to our computer inside the openindiana server box by software.

After had a lot of reading and researching over the internet, I found out that I have to use 'brctl' command to create the bridging connection. By default this feature isn't implemented, so that I would need to install ethbridge-0.9 from opensolaris website (can be downloaded by clicking view > attachment on the website
hub (dot) opensolaris (dot) org /bin/view/Project+ethbridge/files

The problem arise here when I install the package, when I 'make' the package, I got an error saying that the file is unable to be compiled (I couldn't regenerate the error). Thus I tried to 'make install' the package under (super user)

Code:

# make install

it also didn't work, but when I used (non super user with 'sudo')

Code:

$ sudo make install

it works!

Hence, I got my brctl installed. I tried to install the driver for the bridge by inputing:

Code:

$ sudo add_drv bridge

Giving an output of:
Driver (bridge) is already installed.

But when I went to /devices/pseudo/
I can 'only' see a folder called bridge@0, the file called bridge@0:0 is missing!

I also tried different methods
update_drv bridge

and

rem_drv bridge then followed by add_drv bridge

They didn't work.....

Another problem arised when I tried to create the bridge by inputing the command:

Code:

$ sudo bridge addbr mybridge

or

Code:

# bridge addbr mybdrige

Giving an output of:
brctl: open(/devices/pseudo/bridge@0:0) failed: No such file or directory

After done another research on ethbridge-0.9 on the internet, I found it out that this package didn't work on Solaris S10u1 (Solaris 10 01/06)
mail (dot) opensolaris (dot) org/pipermail/ethbridge-discuss/2006-January/000000 (dot) html

The goal:
I just only want to bridge two of my ethernet in this openindiana server box so that each computer could:
1. see each other in the same network
2. have up/downlink 1gb/s to the server box.

I am not closed only to this bridging solutions, if you have any different solution that satisfy the requirements above please shoot.

Any help/solutions would be very appreciated.

Have a good one guys.

to moderator: sorry, I have upload the link so that the other user know what I am trying to explain.