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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 1999 15:15:14 +0930
From:      Leigh Hart <hart@dotat.com>
To:        Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, alc@cs.rice.edu (Alan Cox)
Subject:   Re: arp errors on machines with two interfaces 
Message-ID:  <199910090545.PAA20008@at.dotat.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Oct 1999 23:16:12 EST." <199910090416.XAA01282@cs.rice.edu> 

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Hi Mohit,

Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, don't put two network interfaces on one (logical) wire.
> 
> Brilliant! All machines in our dept are connected by switched
> 100Mbps Ethernet - so your suggestion implies that I either
> don't put two network interfaces on the machine or don't
> connect both to the network.
>
> The first would mean I cannot saturate the machine anymore in
> my experiments, and I'll leave the second to more imaginative
> minds than mine.

If you require more than 100Mbps of aggregate bandwidth to the
network, use FastEtherchannel or use two different (logical) 
subnets via two different VLANs on your switch.

Cheers

Leigh
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