Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hmmm, On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:22:30PM -0800, jekillen wrote: On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:52:32PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 07:52, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReillĀ„ books on networking that had one

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Vince
Its certainly possible. In fact on FreeBSD you can only have multiple addresses in one interface if they are in different broadcast domains (although one can be a subset (say /32) of the other. I have 10.0.0.1/25 and 10.10.10.1/24 on my wireless interface at home. Its often a good idea to

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:52:32PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReill? books on networking that had one

[OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-13 Thread jekillen
Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReillĀ„ books on networking that had one interface with one assigned inet address and also aliased with