From owner-freebsd-net Sat Oct 9 14: 3: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6C314C26 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:03:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aron@cs.rice.edu) Received: (from aron@localhost) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA11299; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:02:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Message-Id: <199910092102.QAA11299@cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: arp errors on machines with two interfaces To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:02:57 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, justin@apple.com, alc@cs.rice.edu, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <63642.939502328@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at Oct 9, 99 10:52:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Try to think of it in terms of a traditional coax-based Ethernet, and > having two NICs on one host connected to the same physical Ethernet > cable. Would you expect this to work? (You shouldn't.) > Well with the traditional Ethernet, it didn't make much sense to connect multiple interfaces to the same wire - you don't expect both interfaces together to deliver any more than 10Mbps. However, with switched Ethernet, both interfaces can deliver the full b/w. So why not get the advantages of getting this higher b/w as well as full one on one connectivity between hosts connected to the Ethernet ? - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message