From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 16:41:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B6B14BE5 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:41:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-wat.sentex.net (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA01056; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:41:12 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: rseals@midwestis.com (Ray Seals) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple NICs same subnet - bad idea? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:49:22 GMT Message-ID: <36d49d87.1109578669@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Feb 1999 16:12:29 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Can I have multiple NICs in a freeBSD box and have those NICs on the same >subnet? Do I get any performance enhancements or is this just a bad idea? Perhaps if you have the unit on a switched hub where the total traffic requirements exceeded the capacity of each individual link, than it might make a good idea.. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message