Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:31:26 -0500 From: "Travis Leuthauser" <travis@winconx.com> To: "Omachonu Ogali" <oogali@intranova.net> Cc: "David Miller" <dmiller@search.sparks.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's Message-ID: <002d01bfc121$2fece8c0$20503cd0@travis> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005181929410.381-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
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Throughout the course of the day, I tried reconfiguring the second NIC with
a /32 netmask and was still getting the arp messages. Should I be concerned
with the messages or no?
Thanks,
Travis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Omachonu Ogali" <oogali@intranova.net>
To: "Travis Leuthauser" <travis@winconx.com>
Cc: "David Miller" <dmiller@search.sparks.net>;
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's
> The first NIC should have the netmask of 255.255.255.128 and the second
> NIC should be 255.255.255.255, sounds logical as you don't want your
> machine generating two packets for every broadcast request...
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Travis Leuthauser wrote:
>
> > I am in the process of building a high volume news server. One NIC will
be
> > used for our incoming news feed, one for our users to read from, and
> > ultimately I will add a third which will be used to feed other news
servers.
> >
> > Travis
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Miller" <dmiller@search.sparks.net>
> > To: "Travis Leuthauser" <travis@winconx.com>
> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: Multiple NIC's
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Travis Leuthauser wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am running 3.1 Stable. I am trying to add a 2nd NIC in my news
> > server. I
> > > > have a 3com (xl0) currently in it with the following configuration:
> > > >
> > > > xl0:
> > > > IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.12 netmask 255.255.255.128
> > > > alias: xxx.xxx.xxx.14 netmask 255.255.255.255
> > > > both IP's are in the same subnet.
> > > >
> > > > I want to add a second 3com NIC (xl1) with the .14 address, thus
making
> > my
> > > > configuration:
> > > >
> > > > xl0 xxx.xxx.xxx.12 netmask 255.255.255.128
> > > > xl1 xxx.xxx.xxx.14 netmask 255.255.255.128
> > >
> > > At the risk of sounding stupid, why do you want to network cards
attached
> > > to the same network?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --- David
> > >
> > >
> > >
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