Does anyone know anything about VLANs.
Apologies, as this completely off-topic and nothing to do with OS/2 but someone here may be able to help...
I run a pfSense box (
https://www.pfsense.org/) as a firewall/router/gateway/dhcp server on my network and it broke yesterday - ie one of the NICs stopped working so my network is down and I only have Internet access by tethering my tablet.
I understand that pfSense can be setup as a router using a single NIC by using VLANs but I have no idea how to set it up. I do have a TP-LINK smart switch which allows me to set up VLANs but it looks fairly complicated...
I remember, long ago using 'NET ALIAS' in setup.cmd to define two IP addresses on one NIC, but I guess that wouldn't work if one address was static and one dynamic....
I guess if I got VLANs working I could try setting up OS/2 as my router...
The nice thing about pfSense is that it is completely configurable via its WEB interface.... Being open source, I wonder if it's possible to port it to OS/2. OS/2 already has its own TCP/IP stack and its supposed to have an excellent firewall. If anyone was interesting in porting it, I'd definitely like to be involved