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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:50:26 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using any network interface whatsoever
Message-ID:  <20060409185026.GD720@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060409.095819.67883917.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <17464.16087.217524.843667@bhuda.mired.org> <20060409005712.GA856@trit.org> <17464.30906.793504.199832@bhuda.mired.org> <20060409.095819.67883917.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sun, 2006-Apr-09 09:58:19 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>I've actually run into all of these problems on a machine we have at
>work that acts as a gateway to about 10-20 private networks.  It has
>had between 2-4 dual cards and 2-4 quad cards, in various mix and
>match flavors over the years.

We have several machines (for redundancy) that act as gateways into
over 40 private networks.  When there were only 4 networks, we used
multiple NICs but decided this approach wasn't expandable and we now
use VLAN trunks and break out the different networks within the
switches.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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