Dear/Beste Dave, Monday, December 30, 2002, 2:25:39 PM, you wrote:
>>> Can I plug all three NIC s into one switch (the switch will also be >>> connectoed to our providered swtch, for Inet connection) and expect both >>> networks to work OK? >> >>It does work, but you will be getting a lot of warnings because some >>IP-packages will arrive at the wrong NIC first. (I run one server like >>this for a half year now) Call me lazy. :-) > Shoudn't the switch figure out after a few packets that NIC1 contains addresses > 10.... and NIC2 addresses 192... and not send the wrong packets to the wrong > NIC? Or are you using a HUB in your installations and thus the wrong packets > being sent? Isn't the purpose of the switch to avoid this behavior either > automatically or via manual onfiguration of the switch ports? First. The old configuration already contained a hub. When the total connections became larger than the hub we added a switch. I never tried to configure it manually. Secondly although most IP-packages gets filtered some packages still get though. Thirdly some switched are disguised hubs. (At least in my price class) -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
