Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:02:30 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Ray Seals <rseals@midwestis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Multiple NICs same subnet - bad idea? Message-ID: <XFMail.990224180230.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990223150939.22525A-100000@sparc>
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On 23-Feb-99 Ray Seals wrote: > Can I have multiple NICs in a freeBSD box and have those NICs on the same > subnet? Do I get any performance enhancements or is this just a bad > idea? I don't realy see how it will add benefit (e.g. performance) to the situation I think you are describing. The NICs will have to have an IP address bound to each one and IP uses an IP address for its targetting of packets (and ethernet frames use the MAC address for this). Since the two cards both differ on this point one card will simply ignore packets destined for the other card and vice versa. So I don't know what else ye were thinking of which ye didn't write down? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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