Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi Mick,

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +0000, mick crane wrote:
> I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections.
> Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ?
> 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0

There is no strong connection between the concept of a physical port
and the logical addresses you put on an interface associated with.
You can create a virtual network interface in a machine with no
network hardware at all, and put a billion different IPv6 networks
on it if you like!

Cheers,
Andy