Re: 2 interfaces on same subnet

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Thu, 31 May 2001 12:21:31 EDT, John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  said:

> Is it that useful? It'd boost reliability, but would it boost performance? If
> you've got a card that can keep up with the wire, then you don't have any
> bottlenecks that having two cards would solve.

Not necessarily for switched media. Consider a 100BaseT switch with a gigabit
uplink to the backbone - running 2 100Mbit lines may get you twice the
throughput of one.  Maybe.  Your Mileage May Vary, etc etc. ;)
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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