Bound external Cisco CIGESM ports to a specific BladeServer
- by Vinícius Ferrão
We have an IBM BladeCenter with 14 blade servers and one external Cisco CIGESM for Ethernet connectivity.
Since this hardware is a little old, we will use it for other services, and we want to run a pfSense instance on one of the blades. It's just an Firewall Appliance, but it needs two network interfaces: one for the WAN and the other one for LAN access.
Our architecture works on top of static routes, we don't use NAT, so we got the WAN IP in one interface routing to the another one.
The main problem is how to plug the WAN cable in one of the four external ports and make it exclusive to the blade server containing the firewall. And we also need an exit port that goes through a 3COM 4200G switch that makes the internal routing and VLAN separation.
Thanks in advance