From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 15:24:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F127E16A426 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:24:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from miguel@anjos.strangled.net) Received: from mailrly01.isp.novis.pt (mailrly01.isp.novis.pt [195.23.133.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FE243D45 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:24:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from miguel@anjos.strangled.net) Received: (qmail 8102 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2006 15:24:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailfrt12.isp.novis.pt) ([195.23.133.228]) (envelope-sender ) by mailrly01.isp.novis.pt with compressed SMTP; 17 Feb 2006 15:24:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 7898 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2006 15:24:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.anjos.strangled.net) ([87.196.196.141]) (envelope-sender ) by mailfrt12.isp.novis.pt with SMTP; 17 Feb 2006 15:24:15 -0000 Received: from dual.anjos.strangled.net (dual.anjos.strangled.net [192.168.0.3]) by compaq.anjos.strangled.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1HFOCom002929; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:24:13 GMT (envelope-from miguel@anjos.strangled.net) From: Miguel Ramos To: Thomas Franck , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <43F5EF0A.31646.16880A2@TAFranck.gmx.net> References: <43F5E134.2791.13277DF@TAFranck.gmx.net> <43F5EF0A.31646.16880A2@TAFranck.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso8859-15 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:24:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1140189851.907.11.camel@dual.anjos.strangled.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:24:27 -0000 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. Miguel