Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:51:51 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: aaron.glenn@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues Message-ID: <43243677.6020707@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <18f601940509110230242e8bfc@mail.gmail.com> References: <ED8E7F5B-7E3F-40D8-8993-76E9AB8226F9@yfug.yumaed.org> <4322FDC4.8010609@mac.com> <18f601940509110230242e8bfc@mail.gmail.com>
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Aaron Glenn wrote: > On 9/10/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: >> You cannot truthfully multihome a machine with a single NIC. > > Why not? Because you cannot put one NIC into two genuinely distinct layer-2 collision domains. Spanning Tree Protocol won't recognize a single NIC as a potential connection or loop, depending. -- -Chuck
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