On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:06:59AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 25.10.06 21:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:04:14PM +0800, he ccjj wrote: > > > I have tow NIC eth0 and eth1,and two ip: a.b.c.d and a.b.c.e,with the > > > same gateway a.b.c.254 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > This is completely broken? Why on Earth would you want two NICs on the > > same subnet going to the same gateway? Unless you know what you are > > doing and have a very specific reason to have that exact arrangement, > > what you are doing is broken. > > Maybe to get better performance and/or failover setup. I'm not sure, but the > kernel could work with such setup, imho. It seems it doesn't. > Performance is one thing, but you would need to use bonding or something similar to get the benefit of greater bandwidth. But beyond that, I would think that the failiure against which would try to defend with this setup would be so uncommon as to not be worth the effort.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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