Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:05:35 +0000 From: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 diskless PC & 2 NICs: Can I separate NFS from other network trafic? Message-ID: <200411072105.35320.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <418DBDC3.50805@yahoo.com> References: <418DBDC3.50805@yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 07 November 2004 06:16, Rob wrote: > Hello, > > I have a master for a cluster of diskless slaves; the master > serves the slaves over NFS (/, /usr, /home). I have two > internet cards in all PCs, but only using one on the slaves > right now. > > Could I use the second internet card to separate the NFS trafic > from all other network trafic? At the moment, I have this on a > slave: > > rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=8<VLAN_MTU> > inet6 fe80::2a0:b0ff:fe0e:3a95%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 192.168.123.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast > 192.168.123.255 ether 00:a0:b0:0e:3a:95 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > rl1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=8<VLAN_MTU> > ether 00:50:fc:e9:30:49 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > > The master is 192.168.123.254, which is also the router to this local > network (so the master has one NIC connected to the Internet, the > other to the switch of the local network). > > How can I utilize the dual NIC setup on the slaves in a optimal way? I'm not sure there is much point in separating NFS from other traffic, since they typically travel in opposite directions. For example a file download will involve packets coming into a client from the router and back out to the NFS server. Your NICs are full-duplex so the two types of traffic shouldn't get in each-others way very much.
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