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Date:      Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:02:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, justin@apple.com, alc@cs.rice.edu, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:   Re: arp errors on machines with two interfaces
Message-ID:  <199910092102.QAA11299@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <63642.939502328@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at Oct 9, 99 10:52:08 pm

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> 
> Try to think of it in terms of a traditional coax-based Ethernet, and
> having two NICs on one host connected to the same physical Ethernet
> cable. Would you expect this to work? (You shouldn't.)
> 


Well with the traditional Ethernet, it didn't make much sense to connect
multiple interfaces to the same wire - you don't expect both interfaces
together to deliver any more than 10Mbps. However, with switched Ethernet, 
both interfaces can deliver the full b/w. So why not get the advantages of 
getting this higher b/w as well as full one on one connectivity between 
hosts connected to the Ethernet ?



- Mohit


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