From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 16: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB48414D18 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.127]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA666F; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:12:36 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01402; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:02:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:02:30 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Ray Seals Subject: RE: Multiple NICs same subnet - bad idea? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message