From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 02:51:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA26440 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 02:51:06 -0800 Received: from dns.netvision.net.il (root@dns.NetVision.net.il [194.90.1.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA26434 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 02:51:02 -0800 Received: from ugen.NetManage.co.il (ugen.netmanage.co.il [192.114.78.165]) by dns.netvision.net.il (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA17328; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 12:49:31 +0200 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 12:48:28 IST From: "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" Subject: Re: Routing and Ethernet To: Denis Fortin Cc: jg@euronet.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Chameleon 4.00-Arm-25, TCP/IP for Windows, NetManage Inc. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hmmm. I could see that this might be possible if both cards are on the >same physical Ethernet (though I can't really see how that would be useful >unless you've got a slow ethernet card). > >I cannot see how it would make sense if both cards are on different >Ethernet segments and have the same netmask (0xffffff00)!!! In that >case, there would be no way of determining through which interface >(and hence on which wire) a packet destined to 194.90.1.17 would go. No..they are both on same wire..Setting them on different wires really does not makes much use and creates a whole bunch of troubles.On the same wire this has one simple use: the primary card is 3com509-it is fastest card i ever seen and gives throughput to 700-800Kb/s which is pretty good,but it lacks completely promiscuous mode so to run tcpdump & friends i have NE2000-it is slow as hell but it is ok for tcpdump purposes..:) -- -=Ugen J.S.Antsilevich=- NetVision - Israeli Commercial Internet | Learning E-mail: ugen@NetVision.net.il | To Fly. [c] Phone : +972-4-550330 |