From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 16:31:34 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 D7C7737BBCA for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 16:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from travis@winconx.com) Received: (qmail 53166 invoked from network); 18 May 2000 23:35:24 -0000 Received: from dhcp01.winconx.net (HELO travis) (208.60.80.32) by ns1.winconx.net with SMTP; 18 May 2000 23:35:24 -0000 Message-ID: <002d01bfc121$2fece8c0$20503cd0@travis> From: "Travis Leuthauser" To: "Omachonu Ogali" Cc: "David Miller" , References: Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:31:26 -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 Throughout the course of the day, I tried reconfiguring the second NIC with a /32 netmask and was still getting the arp messages. Should I be concerned with the messages or no? Thanks, Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Omachonu Ogali" To: "Travis Leuthauser" Cc: "David Miller" ; Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's > 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