From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 15:27:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from winconx.com (ns1.winconx.net [208.60.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8398E37B66D for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 15:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from travis@winconx.com) Received: (qmail 26148 invoked from network); 18 May 2000 22:31:07 -0000 Received: from dhcp01.winconx.net (HELO travis) (208.60.80.32) by ns1.winconx.net with SMTP; 18 May 2000 22:31:07 -0000 Message-ID: <006701bfc118$34b1b2e0$20503cd0@travis> From: "Travis Leuthauser" To: "David Miller" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:27:09 -0500 Organization: DDS Group of Companies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am in the process of building a high volume news server. One NIC will be used for our incoming news feed, one for our users to read from, and ultimately I will add a third which will be used to feed other news servers. Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miller" To: "Travis Leuthauser" Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Travis Leuthauser wrote: > > > I am running 3.1 Stable. I am trying to add a 2nd NIC in my news server. I > > have a 3com (xl0) currently in it with the following configuration: > > > > xl0: > > IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.12 netmask 255.255.255.128 > > alias: xxx.xxx.xxx.14 netmask 255.255.255.255 > > both IP's are in the same subnet. > > > > I want to add a second 3com NIC (xl1) with the .14 address, thus making my > > configuration: > > > > xl0 xxx.xxx.xxx.12 netmask 255.255.255.128 > > xl1 xxx.xxx.xxx.14 netmask 255.255.255.128 > > At the risk of sounding stupid, why do you want to network cards attached > to the same network? > > > > Thanks, > > --- David > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message