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Re: Multi NIC and Multi IP problem



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. 

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