From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 22:47:49 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 22:47:47 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lolita.speakeasy.net (lolita.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9776637B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15013 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2001 06:40:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gonzo.speakeasy.net) (192.168.0.5) by 192.168.0.13 with SMTP; 4 Jan 2001 06:40:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 27446 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2001 06:47:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Max.B2Pi.com) (216.254.64.187) by gonzo.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 4 Jan 2001 06:47:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14932.7305.161918.432919@Max.B2Pi.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: Brent B.Powers To: David Kelly Cc: Tim Gustafson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two NICs In FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200101040626.f046Qqp18465@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20010103233521.00a58890@esther.falconsoft.com> <200101040626.f046Qqp18465@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.2 (beta34) "Molpe" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "David" == David Kelly writes: David> Tim Gustafson writes: >> Hello >> >> I just installed two NIC cards into my FreeBSD machine that are >> on the same LAN, each with a different IP. However, I keep >> getting this sort of message in my syslog: David> I fail to understand why one would put two NICs on the same David> LAN. What does this do for you that an aliased address on David> one NIC won't do? Is this something you have to do to NT to David> fool it into appearing on the net with multiple IP David> addresses? Someplace I've a sun doc that discusses how to do this on SunOS and Solaris. The reason you might want to do it might include redundancy (I've had NIC's die on me, sometimes from overheat) and possibly increasing bandwidth. In fact, for the second reason, it's relatively commonly done with PPP links, which amounts to two NIC's on the same network. I'll keep looking for that doc, and upload whatever suggestions I can. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message