Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: Brent B.Powers <powers@b2pi.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Tim Gustafson <tim@falconsoft.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two NICs In FreeBSD Message-ID: <14932.7305.161918.432919@Max.B2Pi.com> In-Reply-To: <200101040626.f046Qqp18465@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <tim@falconsoft.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20010103233521.00a58890@esther.falconsoft.com> <200101040626.f046Qqp18465@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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>>>>> "David" == David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes:
David> Tim Gustafson writes:
>> Hello
>>
>> I just installed two NIC cards into my FreeBSD machine that are
>> on the same LAN, each with a different IP. However, I keep
>> getting this sort of message in my syslog:
David> I fail to understand why one would put two NICs on the same
David> LAN. What does this do for you that an aliased address on
David> one NIC won't do? Is this something you have to do to NT to
David> fool it into appearing on the net with multiple IP
David> addresses?
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) and possibly
increasing bandwidth. In fact, for the second reason, it's relatively
commonly done with PPP links, which amounts to two NIC's on the same
network.
I'll keep looking for that doc, and upload whatever suggestions I can.
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