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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] ts-7800 how do I make 4 (at least 2) identical network stacks?
From: Walter Marvin <>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:30:07 -0800 (PST)
Oly if you use raw Ethernet otherwise you have a routing problem

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On Sun, 11/3/13, Jim Zurcher <> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ts-7000] ts-7800 how do I make 4 (at least 2) identical network 
stacks?
 To: 
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 10:51 AM
















  



  


    
      
      
       It seems like there is no need for the 4 TS7800
 ethernet ports to all have the same IPAddress, as long as
 they all are on the 1.1.1.0 subnet.  When you write
 your c program you should be able to specify what interface
 to talk to.  For example your 4  ethernet ports
 might be 1.1.1.201,.202,.203,.204.  When you wanted to
 talk to device A, your program would send the message out on
 IPAddress 1.1.1.201, when it wanted to talk to device B it
 would send the message out on 1.1.1.202, etc.  This
 assumes of course that you are able to wire directly from
 the legacy devices to the TS7800.  It also assumes that
 the legacy devices are not programmed to talk to a specific
 IPAddress

 Jim
 Zurcher
 On Nov 3, 2013, at 10:39 AM,
 Jason Stahls <>
 wrote:















  



    
  
  
    
 On 11/3/2013 1:29 PM,
 Jonathan Leslie
       wrote:

    
    
      
      
      
         "He has two
 legacy boxes with the
             same fixed IPs that can't be changed."
  

        
         Exactly.
  
           I actually have four legacy boxes with the address
 1.1.1.101.
           I want a C program or programs for the ts-7800
 that can
           individually talk to each of the legacy devices
 through the 4
           ports of the ts-7800.  
        

        
         So
 I want
           to know if on the ts-7800 can I set up 4 IP
           stacks/SOCK/iptables/whatever  so that I can
 have a 4
           different networks, lets call them A, B, C, and D,
 all on the
           same ts-7800. 
        

        
         so
 I
           should be able to have a c program of the
 sort:
        

        
         talk_to_legacy_device
           -n[A|B|C|D] -i[1.1.1.101]
 -m"message" 
        

        
        

        
         where 
        

        
         on
 all 4
           networks, I have established that my node is
 1.1.1.200.   
        

        
         when
 I use
           talk_to_legacy_device, the -n parameter lets the c
 program
           know which of the 4 networks I want to send the
 message out
           on, and then also has a listener on that same
 network for the
           response from 1.1.1.101.   
        

        
         eventually
           I will have 4 background processes all listening
 on the four
           different networks, for a communication from their
 respective
           1.1.1.101 legacy system, and signal a command
 program to
           format a response and have only that one
 background process
           send the reply.   
        

        
         So
 can
           this arrangement be set up on the ts-7800 or
 not???

        
      
    
    

     Yes it can, I've done something similar with a
 multi-home'd router,
     four interfaces, two wan to lan and keep them separate
 from each
     other.  Do I remember how?  No :)  I
 remember lots of iproute2 and
     iptables reading tho.  Big thing is you'll need
 either four NIC's on
     the TS7800, or a VAN capable switch (for size and price
 a Linux
     based consumer router like a WRT54 would work) to
 separate the
     networks.  You then block the networks for seeing
 each other
     (iptables/iproute2) and bind your C app to a specific
 interface.  -n
     would be easiest to take a Ethernet interface (eth0,
 eth0.1, eth1,
     whatever) instead of a label. 

    

     What do these legacy devices do?  Might it be
 easier to re-implement
     them into a single TS7800 ?

    

     --

     Jason Stahls



    
     

    










    
     

    
    






  











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