From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 8:17:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBBA37B406 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0C643ED1 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H7XX9C00.QKQ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:17:36 +0100 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:16:52 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2813398155.20021230171652@dds.nl> To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Cc: "Alex" , "Grant Peel" , Subject: Re[2]: 2 networks, six NICs, 3 Servers, 1 switch. In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear/Beste Dave, Monday, December 30, 2002, 2:25:39 PM, you wrote: >>> Can I plug all three NIC s into one switch (the switch will also be >>> connectoed to our providered swtch, for Inet connection) and expect both >>> networks to work OK? >> >>It does work, but you will be getting a lot of warnings because some >>IP-packages will arrive at the wrong NIC first. (I run one server like >>this for a half year now) Call me lazy. :-) > Shoudn't the switch figure out after a few packets that NIC1 contains addresses > 10.... and NIC2 addresses 192... and not send the wrong packets to the wrong > NIC? Or are you using a HUB in your installations and thus the wrong packets > being sent? Isn't the purpose of the switch to avoid this behavior either > automatically or via manual onfiguration of the switch ports? First. The old configuration already contained a hub. When the total connections became larger than the hub we added a switch. I never tried to configure it manually. Secondly although most IP-packages gets filtered some packages still get though. Thirdly some switched are disguised hubs. (At least in my price class) -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message