Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:24:11 +0000 From: Miguel Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> To: Thomas Franck <TAFranck@gmx.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages Message-ID: <1140189851.907.11.camel@dual.anjos.strangled.net> In-Reply-To: <43F5EF0A.31646.16880A2@TAFranck.gmx.net> References: <43F5E134.2791.13277DF@TAFranck.gmx.net> <43F5EF0A.31646.16880A2@TAFranck.gmx.net>
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Sex, 2006-02-17 ās 15:43 +0100, Thomas Franck escreveu: > > Unless you take special measures (ng_fec?), one does not > > normally connect two NICs on one machine to the same collision > > domain. > > Hmm.. don't really see a problem with that.. two NICs with > diffent IP on the same subnet.. binding say, a webserver and a > database to different NICs... takes load off the single NIC, > giving 100MBit to each service... > If they're on the same collision domain, then you're not giving 100Mbps to each service, that would be good. That's why it usually doesn't make sense (I understand that this is a temporary configuration...). You can have two IP addresses on the same NIC anyway... > > By default, some other hardware (like Suns), will even use the > > same MAC address for every NIC on the machine.... > > Uhh.. that's nasty.. :) > Not so nasty, since there's really no point in having more than one NIC on the same segment. And the log message is justifiable. Sorry for my intrusion. Miguelhome | help
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