From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 16 10:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DCD37B538 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:44:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52705132E7 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA11214; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:43:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAjxaaOv; Wed Feb 16 11:43:36 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16011; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:43:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200002161843.LAA16011@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 isn't that smart, but everything else is To: cjclark@home.com Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:43:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jnickelsen@acm.org (Juergen Nickelsen), kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000215210935.C45552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> from "Crist J. Clark" at Feb 15, 2000 09:09:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I saw this a lot from a FreeBSD box (3.4-RELEASE) that was connected > > to the same Ethernet segment with two NICs (in different logical > > networks). It really got on my nerves, and Windows 2000 was not > > involved. > > Shouldn't put two NICs from one host on one physical LAN. Hurts > network performance. I have yet to hear a good reason to do it. Because when Windows NT did it on a 4 processor box with the interrupt processing for each NIC bound to a different processor (e.g. non-symmetric multiprocessing), they blew the doors off of Linux when it came to file server performance? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message