From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 7 17:30: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.pwhsnet.com (adsl-64-168-102-95.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [64.168.102.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCFF37B401 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus (patrick@zeus.pwhsnet.com [192.168.0.3]) by apollo.pwhsnet.com (8.12.2/8.11.6) with SMTP id g480bjwi075155; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@pwhsnet.com) Message-ID: <01a901c1f627$0895d880$0300a8c0@zeus> From: "Patrick O. Fish" To: "Tom Wiebe" , References: Subject: Re: IP aliasing... Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 17:26:45 -0700 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Would I see a remarkable improvement if I were to add multiple NIC's > (something I'd prefer not to do right now, just to avoid the tangle of > wires growing to unmanageable proportions, if nothing else). ifconfig dc0(or whatever your ethernet card is) alias ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wiebe" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:24 PM Subject: IP aliasing... > Hi all, > > Well, I've got my shiny new line installed and am starting to configure my > servers. At the moment, I'll have multiple services running on some boxes, > i.e. mail and web on the same box. > > I was thinking that it might be easier in the future if I ran these > services on separate IP's, so that I can easily move them to dedicated > boxes when required. > > My question is, is there any performance hit for IP aliasing as opposed to > just running both services off of the same IP. I don't imagine that I'd > see any performance improvement with this, but will I lose out. > > Would I see a remarkable improvement if I were to add multiple NIC's > (something I'd prefer not to do right now, just to avoid the tangle of > wires growing to unmanageable proportions, if nothing else). > > Is there strength to my logic, or am I being silly here? > > TIA > > Tom Wiebe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message