From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 7 17:24:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576DC37B401 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay03-en1.mac.com (smtp-relay03-en1 [10.13.10.222]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g480OjPZ013640 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtp-relay03-en1.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g480OdC7009428 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([149.99.59.130]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 asmtp01 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GVRNT300.8U6 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 17:24:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 17:24:37 -0700 Subject: IP aliasing... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) From: Tom Wiebe To: isp@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <002601c1f496$bb0938a0$20fea8c0@ddd> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, Well, I've got my shiny new line installed and am starting to configure my servers. At the moment, I'll have multiple services running on some boxes, i.e. mail and web on the same box. I was thinking that it might be easier in the future if I ran these services on separate IP's, so that I can easily move them to dedicated boxes when required. My question is, is there any performance hit for IP aliasing as opposed to just running both services off of the same IP. I don't imagine that I'd see any performance improvement with this, but will I lose out. Would I see a remarkable improvement if I were to add multiple NIC's (something I'd prefer not to do right now, just to avoid the tangle of wires growing to unmanageable proportions, if nothing else). Is there strength to my logic, or am I being silly here? TIA Tom Wiebe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message