Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:49:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 (or more) LAN interface on SAME subnet ? Message-ID: <199512191749.KAA14759@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9512191615.AA14564@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Dec 19, 95 11:15:44 am
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> >> This is not true. The Internet Architecture requires that logical > >> subnets be fully-connected. The BSD Architecture requires that every > >> network interface be connected to a unique subnet. > > > You mean "logical network interface", right? > > No, I don't. I mean ``network interface driver instance''. > > > Otherwise you're saying you can't use bridges on subnets... > > No, I'm saying that you can use BSD to implement a bridge. Then you are mixing definitions for "subnets" and "subnet". If I have a wire named 137.190.32, I can have two wires named 137.190.32 with a bridge between them. If I have a FreeBSD box as the bridge, then the two network interfaces are connected to different wires, but the *same* subnet. I think you mean that you aren't alled to hook two cards in the same machine to the same wire. THAT makes sense. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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