From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 16:29:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7CF37BB45 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrant.intranova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4CDE0E8D; Thu, 18 May 2000 19:30:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 19:30:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Travis Leuthauser Cc: David Miller , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's In-Reply-To: <006701bfc118$34b1b2e0$20503cd0@travis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The first NIC should have the netmask of 255.255.255.128 and the second NIC should be 255.255.255.255, sounds logical as you don't want your machine generating two packets for every broadcast request... On Thu, 18 May 2000, Travis Leuthauser wrote: > 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 > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message