On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:56:00 +0100, Thorsten Mühlfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi >Use bridge-utils to set up a bridge over all eth ports. So will have only one >IP on all adresses. Several people here assume you want a bridge to tie all your interfaces together. You can go to the trouble of doing that, but why? The NET5501 is the first Soekris box that can actually saturate the 100Mbit link. With that in mind I had high hopes that bonding several nics together might make up for the fact that I was moving my server from a Gbit capable box to the Soekris. Alas, bonding the nics didn't provide any real throughput improvements, at least not according to my primitive tests. The 5501 can really only saturate a single link at a time. If someone else thinks otherwise I'm all ears. However, perhaps our assumption is wrong and you're really wanting to use the nics to separate your networks (internal, DMZ, external, wireless)? In that case you need to read up on basic network topology. Subnets and subnet masks is a good place to start searching. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
