Sex, 2006-02-17 às 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
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