From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 0:28:28 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 00:28:26 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8306037B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:28:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f048S9T19890; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:28:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:28:09 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Brent B.Powers" , David Kelly , Tim Gustafson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two NICs In FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010104002809.U292@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:23:32AM +0000 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Cliff Sarginson [010104 00:23] wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:47:37AM -0500, Brent B.Powers wrote: > > > Someplace I've a sun doc that discusses how to do this on SunOS and > > > Solaris. The reason you might want to do it might include redundancy > > > (I've had NIC's die on me, sometimes from overheat) > > > > This is not the way to do it. The IP address of a fried card will > > still be unreachable. > > > > > and possibly increasing bandwidth. > > > Increase bandwidth ? A pipe doesn't increase it's width just because you > try to pour more water into it. At least not under the conventional laws > of this particular universe... > > > > > In fact, for the second reason, it's relatively > > > commonly done with PPP links, which amounts to two NIC's on the same > > > network. > > > > Huh, how's that? 100mbit ports, GigE uplink? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message