Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:43:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: jnickelsen@acm.org (Juergen Nickelsen), kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows 2000 isn't that smart, but everything else is Message-ID: <200002161843.LAA16011@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000215210935.C45552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> from "Crist J. Clark" at Feb 15, 2000 09:09:35 PM
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> > I saw this a lot from a FreeBSD box (3.4-RELEASE) that was connected > > to the same Ethernet segment with two NICs (in different logical > > networks). It really got on my nerves, and Windows 2000 was not > > involved. > > Shouldn't put two NICs from one host on one physical LAN. Hurts > network performance. I have yet to hear a good reason to do it. Because when Windows NT did it on a 4 processor box with the interrupt processing for each NIC bound to a different processor (e.g. non-symmetric multiprocessing), they blew the doors off of Linux when it came to file server performance? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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